March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

by Michael B. Smith

2025 · John Wiley & Sons

Leading reference on the theories of organic chemistry, now updated to reflect the most recent literature from 2018 to 2023 Building on the success of the 8th Edition as winner of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association 2021 McGuffey Longevity Award, the revised and updated 9th Edition of March’s Advanced Organic Chemistryexplains the theories of organic chemistry, covers new advances in areas of organic chemistry published between 2018 and 2023, and guides readers to plan and execute multi-step synthetic reactions. Detailed examples and descriptions of all reactions are included throughout the text. As in previous editions, the goal of this edition is to give equal weight to three fundamental aspects of the study of organic chemistry: reactions, mechanisms, and structure. Specific but specialized areas of organic chemistry, such as terpenes, polymerization, and steroids, have been incorporated into primary sections rather than segregated into their own sections. The first nine chapters cover general organic chemistry with theoretical principles. The next 10 chapters address reactions and mechanistic discussion. Appendix A focuses on literature references and resources. More than 4,400 references are included throughout the text. March’s Advanced Organic Chemistry provides information on: Localized and delocalized chemical bonding and bonding weaker than covalent Microwave chemistry, use of ultrasound, mechanochemistry, and reactions done under flow conditions Acids and bases, irradiation processes, stereochemistry, structure of intermediates, and ordinary and photochemical reactions Mechanisms and methods of determining carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, and nitrenes Aliphatic, alkenyl, and alkynyl substitution, additions to carbon-carbon and carbon-hetero bonds, eliminations, rearrangements, and oxidations and reductions This 9th Edition of March’s Advanced Organic Chemistry continues to serve as a must-have reference for every student and professional working in organic chemistry or related fields.

Latin American Elections

by Richard Nadeau, Eric Belanger, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mathieu Turgeon, Francois Gelineau

2017 · University of Michigan Press

The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on electoral studies to evaluate the model’s applicability in this region. Analyzing data from the AmericasBarometer, a scientific public opinion survey carried out in 18 Latin American nations from 2008 to 2012, the authors find that, like democratic voters elsewhere, Latin Americans respond to long-term forces, such as social class, political party ties, and political ideology while also paying attention to short-term issues, such as the economy, crime, corruption. Of course, Latin Americans differ from other Americans, and among themselves. Voters who have experienced left-wing populism may favor government curbs on freedom of expression, for example, while voters enduring high levels of economic deprivation or instability tend to vote against the party in power. The authors thus conclude that, to a surprising extent, the Michigan model offers a powerful explanatory model for voting behavior in Latin America.