Discussing difficult concepts with exceptional clarity, this book integrates synthetic organic chemistry with medical, pharmaceutical, and biological chemistry, and helps readers clearly define the relationship of organic chemistry to their particular occupation. The book provides numerous problems, exercises, and examples of the physical and chemical properties of bio-organic molecules, and presents complex organic structures on a continual basis throughout, enabling users to focus on relevant functional groups before covering advanced material on chemical reactions. It includes an extensive two-chapter review of general chemistry and offers chapter essays to examine material in greater depth. For nursing, agriculture, and other health and life science professionals.