★This series is an outstanding collection of chemistry education books launched by the Italian Chemical Society, aiming to provide guidance for students dedicated to chemistry research and offer suggestions to chemistry teachers. It adopts an innovative interactive teaching method inspired by chemistry competitions and the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), serving as an effective supplement to traditional school textbooks. Through conceptual explanations (but not merely staying at the conceptual level) and a large number of exercises of various difficulties (with solutions and annotations), it promotes students' learning.
★This series is suitable for:
- Students who wish to consolidate basic chemistry concepts
- Students aiming to excel in organic chemistry and pursue further studies in this field
- Students preparing for chemistry competitions
- Although this book is mainly targeted at high school students, it is also applicable to college students as it helps them understand and consolidate basic chemistry concepts. It is particularly useful for the first few years of chemistry science degree programs and other scientific directions that include the teaching of basic chemistry knowledge, thanks to its theoretical explanations and the exercise sections with solutions and annotations.
- Teachers in high schools and technical colleges, providing them with a practical tool to help students analyze organic chemistry topics conceptually through exercises, thereby enhancing teaching efficiency and interest.

The series includes 3 titles:
Organic Chemistry
Fundamentals of Chemistry
International Chemistry Olympiad

This book, inspired by chemistry competitions and the International Chemistry Olympiad, adopts an innovative and interactive teaching approach to explain the main concepts of organic chemistry, such as structure, properties, reactions, and stereochemistry. It is designed to serve as an effective supplement to traditional school textbooks and is targeted at students in grades one to three of junior high school.

Alessandro Abbotto is a full professor of Chemistry at the University of Milan-Bicocca. He is president of the Organic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society and coordinator of the International Chemistry Games and Championships, an initiative of excellence promoted by the Ministry of Education and Merit and the Italian Chemical Society aimed at secondary school students. He is a Chemistry Europe Fellow, the highest recognition awarded by Chemistry Europe, the European association of chemical societies in European countries. He has published “Hydrogen. All the colors of energy” (Edizioni Dedalo, 2021), “Electric mobility. History, technology, future” (Carocci editore, 2022), "The new chemistry of the 21st century. Green Revolution and Ecological Transition“ (Edizioni Dedalo, 2023; with Vito Capriati), ”Everyday Genius. A Collection of Stories about Great Chemists and Their Discoveries“ (SCI-Edises, 2023), and ”Why Electric Cars" (Scienza Express, 2024).

Norberto Manfredi is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Milan-Bicocca. After graduating in Materials Science and obtaining a PhD in Chemistry, he devoted himself to the study of various types of organic materials for the conversion of solar energy into electricity and solar fuels. He is a member of the Organic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society and has sixty publications in international scientific journals and six patents to his credit.
As part of the university's orientation activities and the degree course in Chemical Sciences and Technologies, he is actively involved as a contact person for the activities of the National Plan for Scientific Degrees, which aims to guide students towards scientific disciplines and train secondary school teachers.

Ottavia Bettucci is a researcher at the University of Milan-Bicocca. During her master's degree in Chemical Sciences at the University of Florence and her PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Siena in collaboration with the CNR in Florence, she devoted herself to the study of organic materials for applications in the field of renewable energy. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), where she worked on the development of innovative organic materials with applications in bioelectronics. In the field of scientific dissemination, she is a freelance writer for scientific publications such as Sapere (Dedalo), Galileo giornale di scienza, and Science in school. She has hosted the children's program “La banda dei fuoriclasse” on Rai gulp, collaborates with the publishing houses Mondadori and Rizzoli, and is a member of the board of the interdivisional group for the dissemination of chemical culture of the SCI.