Organic Chemistry

For nine editions, Organic Chemistry has been designed to meet the needs of the "mainstream," two-semester, undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling text gives students a solid understanding of organic chemistry by stressing how fundamental reaction mechanisms function and reactions occur.

1 Structure Determines Properties

2 Alkanes and Cycloakanes: Introduction to Hydrocarbons

3 Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Introduction to StereoChemistry

4 Alcohols and Alkyl Halides: Introduction to Reaction Mechanisms

5 Structure and Preparation of Alkenes: Elimination Reactions

6 Addition Reactions of Alkenes

7 Chirality

8 Nucleophilic Substitution

9 Alkynes

10 Conjugation in Alkadienes and Allylic Systems

11 Arenes and Aromaticity

12 Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution

13 Spectroscopy

14 Organometallic Compounds

15 Alcohols, Diols, and Thiols

16 Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfides

17 Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition to the Carbonyl Group

18 Carboxylic Acids

19 Acid Derivatives

20 Enols and Enolates

21 Amines

22 Phenols

23 Carbohydrates

24 Lipids

25 Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins

26 Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids

27 Synthetic Polymers

Appendix 1 Physical Properties

Appendix 2 Answers to In-Text Problems

GLOSSARY

CREDITS

INDEX

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