Table of Contents
Ch. 1 Carbon Compounds and Chemical Bonds 1
Ch. 2 Representative Carbon Compounds: Functional Groups, Intermolecular Forces, and Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy 52
Ch. 3 An Introduction to Organic Reactions: Acids and Bases 94
Ch. 4 Alkanes: Nomenclature, Conformational Analysis, and an Introduction to Synthesis 134
Ch. 5 Stereochemistry: Chiral Molecules 193
Ch. 6 Ionic Reactions - Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides 238
Ch. 7 Alkenes and Alkynes I: Properties and Synthesis, Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides 287
Ch. 8 Alkenes and Alkynes II: Addition Reactions 328
Ch. 9 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry: Tools for Structure Determination 383
Ch. 10 Radical Reactions 447
Ch. 11 Alcohols and Ethers 492
Ch. 12 Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds. Oxidation-Reduction and Organometallic Compounds 537
Ch. 13 Conjugated Unsaturated Systems 577
Ch. 14 Aromatic Compounds 622
Ch. 15 Reactions of Aromatic Compounds 664
Ch. 16 Aldehydes and Ketones I. Nucleophilic Addition to the Carbonyl Group 716
Ch. 17 Aldehydes and Ketones II. Aldol Reactions 769
Ch. 18 Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives. Nucleophilic Addition - Elimination at the Acyl Carbon 813
Ch. 19 Synthesis and Reactions of [Beta]-Dicarbonyl Compounds: More Chemistry of Enolate Ions 878
Ch. 20 Amines 840
Ch. 21 Phenols and Aryl Halides: Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution 1000
Ch. 22 Carbohydrates 1072
Ch. 23 Lipids 1128
Ch. 24 Amino Acids and Proteins 1166
Ch. 25 Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis 1220
Answers to Selected Problems
Glossary
Photo and Illustration Credits
Index