Essentials of General, Organic, and Biochemistry Digital Update

Third Edition

Publication Date: March 15, 2024

Paperback ISBN: 9781319545239

Pages: 840

The essential chemistry for health careers and everyday life.

Guinn’s Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry uses health and medicine as the framework for learning the fundamentals of chemistry in this student-centered one-semester text. The newly revised 3rd edition focuses on core concepts and necessary math skills, and features a

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1. Matter, Energy, and Measurement
2. Atomic Structure and Radioisotopes
3. Ionic and Covalent Compounds
4. Molecular Geometry, Polarity, and Intermolecular Forces of Attraction
5. Chemical Quantities and Introduction to Reactions
6. Chemical Reactions: Energy, Rates, and Equilibrium
7. Changes of State and Gas Laws
8. Mixtures, Solution Concentrations, and Diffusion
9. Acids and Bases, pH, and Buffers
10. Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Hydrocarbon Structure
11. Alcohols, Phenols, Thiols, Ethers, and Amines
12. The Carbonyl Containing Functional Groups
13. The Common Organic Reactions in Biochemistry
14. Carbohydrates: Structure and Function
15. Lipids: Structure and Function
16. Proteins: Structure and Function
17. Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
18. Energy and Metabolism

Relevant to health and medicine:

Chemistry in Medicine: A Chemistry in Medicine feature concludes each chapter by providing an in-depth look at how the chemical principles described in the chapter and be directly applied to a problem or issue in healthcare.
Concepts in Context: Because context and connection are crucial to motivation and learning chemistry, each chapter opens in the form of a short, practical, and real-life example of a health-related topic connected to the concepts in the chapter. These stories immediately immerse the student in a high-interest topic related to health and medicine.
Case Studies: in Achieve. Short, formative, self-guided activities intended to help students apply chemical concepts in a clinical context.

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Math Tips: Margin boxes provide suggested techniques and reminders of math skills at points in the text when mathematics is required.
Guidelines: Step-by-step instructions, such as naming organic compounds, can be used as both explanations and a quick reference when doing homework or other exercises. They are clearly set off in the text to emphasize their importance and to help students find them easily.
Worked problem solving: Both tutorials and end-of-chapter style questions provide hints, wrong-answer specific feedback and detailed solutions to ensure student practice focuses on learning and persistence even if incorrect on the first try.

Achieve is Macmillan Learning’s complete online learning system. It houses instructor resources to support teaching and a range of interactive resources and the full ebook to help students succeed in their course. Access to Achieve for instructors is available on this page. Student access to Achieve could be through their institution if the institution has signed a license or as a separate student purchase. The instructor must set up a course for students to benefit from this product.

The new digital update for Guinn Essentials of GOB, 3e includes:

Updated narrative and photo program for clarity and currency.
LearningCurve adaptive quizzes. These adaptive quizzes are tied to every chapter and motivate just-in-time reading and study with an embedded e-book available inside the quizzes. Students are given a target score, allowing each student to work through at their own pace and providing more time and practice for students who need it.
NEW MUST (Math-Up Skills Test). Baseline Assessment to identify at-risk students and a predictive instrument to help instructors and students gain insights into students overall readiness for GOB.
GOB Readiness Adaptive Quizzes. Self-paced, targeted review specific to topics needed for success in GOB.
Case Studies. Short, formative, self-guided activities intended to help students apply chemical concepts in a clinical context.
NEW in-class worksheets. Designed to reinforce the problem solving process, these worksheets can be used for group or individual learning (full solutions available).

Denise Guinn

Denise Guinn received her B.A. in chemistry from the University of California at San Diego and her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before joining Abbott Laboratories as a Research Scientist in the Pharmaceutical Products Discovery Group. In 1992, Dr. Guinn joined the faculty at Regis University, in Denver, Colorado, as Clare Boothe Luce Professor of chemistry, where she taught courses in general chemistry, organic chemistry, and the general, organic, and bio chemistry course for nursing and allied health majors. In 2008, she joined the chemistry department at The College of New Rochelle in New York where she teaches organic chemistry, biochemistry, and the one-semester GOB course for nursing students. She has published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

She has two adult sons, Charles and Scott, who also assisted in the revision of the 2nd and 3rd editions. She currently resides in Nyack, New York with her dog, Puck, where she enjoys kayaking on the Hudson river in her spare time.

Achieve for Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry is an online learning system backed by extensive development and research. Proven to increase student engagement and boost performance. Achieve offers:

Access to the ebook to download, read and virtually annotate for a completely flexible experience.
Course and book-specific resources including adaptive quizzing to personalise the experience for students.
A grade book, assignable assessments with targeted feedback, insights and reporting, instructor resources - all with seamless integration options.
NEW MUST (Math-Up Skills Test). Baseline Assessment to identify at-risk students and a predictive instrument to help instructors and students gain insights into students overall readiness for GOB.
GOB Readiness Adaptive Quizzes. Self-paced, targeted review specific to topics needed for success in GOB.
Case Studies. Short, formative, self-guided activities intended to help students apply chemical concepts in a clinical context.
NEW in-class worksheets. Designed to reinforce the problem solving process, these worksheets can be used for group or individual learning (full solutions available).
Learning objectives have been added and tied to analytics in Achieve
Updated lecture slide decks
90 new end of chapter questions
180 new Test Bank question (including multiple choice, multiple select and free response)