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viii been made. Shirley Fuller and Cindy Knight provided assistance with many aspects
of the preparation of the manuscript.
Acknowledgment This Fifth Edition is supplemented by the Digital Resource that is available at
and Personal Statement
springer.com/carey-sundberg. The Digital Resource summarizes the results of several
computational studies and presents three-dimensional images, comments, and exercises
based on the results. These were developed with financial support from the Teaching
Technology Initiative of the University of Virginia. Technical support was provided by
Michal Sabat, William Rourk, Jeffrey Hollier, and David Newman. Several students
made major contributions to this effort. Sara Fitzgerald Higgins and Victoria Landry
created the prototypes of many of the sites. Scott Geyer developed the dynamic
representations using IRC computations. Tanmaya Patel created several sites and
developed the measurement tool. I also gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the
original authors of these studies in making their output available. Problem Responses
have been provided and I want to acknowledge the assistance of R. Bruce Martin,
David Metcalf, and Daniel McCauley in helping work out some of the specific kinetic
problems and in providing the attendant graphs.
It is my hope that the text, problems, and other material will assist new students
to develop a knowledge and appreciation of structure, mechanism, reactions, and
synthesis in organic chemistry. It is gratifying to know that some 200,000 students
have used earlier editions, hopefully to their benefit.

Richard J. Sundberg
Charlottesville, Virginia
March 2007