Talk:Organic Chemistry/Book outline

Can I ask something of the individuals working on wikibooks, that there should be a printable form that would in fact create a real honest to goodness paper textbook? This would be a wonderful thing for all us po' boys who can;t afford to buy a library but would love to have one.
 * Yes, the plan is to print up the books when they are ready. (This one is far from complete, agreed ?) I'm a po' boy myself and can't wait to see what this project does to reign in textbook prices. --Karl Wick

I'm excited to see how this book takes shape. One of my great hopes, though, is that the book breaks out of the traditional mold. I have a recommendation -- tie spectroscopy in to structure & bonding and introduce it early. Most lab courses these days have students using IR within the first semester, often long before the topic is covered in the lecture part of the course. I've had good luck teaching IR "out of order," and I'd like to expand that to UV, MS, and especially NMR in the next few years. Especially with spectroscopy having gained greater importance than we might have predicted 20-30 years ago, this idea (and this text as a whole) might be a great showcase for an important philosophical change in how we teach organic chemistry.