Description
Book SynopsisOrganic Chemistry has been designed to meet the needs of the two-semester, undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling text gives students a solid understanding of organic chemistry by focusing on how fundamental reaction mechanisms function and reactions occur. The authors strive for students to have a deeper understanding of the physical concepts that underlie organic chemistry, and for them to have a broader knowledge of the role of organic chemistry in biological systems.
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Table of ContentsChapter 1: Structure Determines Properties
Chapter 2: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Introduction to Hydrocarbons
Chapter 3: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Conformations and cis–trans Stereoisomers
Chapter 4: Chirality
Chapter 5: Alcohols and Alkyl Halides: Introduction to Reaction Mechanisms
Chapter 6: Nucleophilic Substitution
Chapter 7: Structure and Preparation of Alkenes: Elimination Reactions
Chapter 8: Addition Reactions of Alkenes
Chapter 9: Alkynes
Chapter 10: Introduction to Free Radicals
Chapter 11: Conjugation in Alkadienes and Allylic Systems
Chapter 12: Arenes and Aromaticity
Chapter 13: Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution
Chapter 14: Spectroscopy
Chapter 15: Organometallic Compounds
Chapter 16: Alcohols, Diols, and Thiols
Chapter 17: Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfides
Chapter 18: Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition to the Carbonyl Group
Chapter 19: Carboxylic Acids
Chapter 20: Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution
Chapter 21: Enols and Enolates
Chapter 22: Amines
Chapter 23: Carbohydrates
Chapter 24: Lipids
Chapter 25: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
Chapter 26: Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids
Chapter 27: Synthetic Polymers
