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 revamped organization to align with traditional course organization and shorter, more condensed chapters. Easily digestible content and medical applications help reduce student anxiety and make chemistry meaningful for students preparing for future careers in nursing and other allied health professions. Paired with SaplingPlus and an embedded eBook, students will be able to focus their study with adaptive quizzing and understand the relevance of chemistry through videos, animations and case studies.

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.

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