Brief Contents
1 Electronic Structure and Covalent Bonding
2 Acids and Bases
3 An Introduction to Organic Compounds:Nomenclature, Physical Properties,and Representation of Structure
4 Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, Stability, and an Introduction to Reactivity
5 RTeactions of Alkenes and Alkynes: An Introduction to Multistep Synthesis
6 Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability,Reactivity,and pKa: Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy
7 Aromaticity.Reactions of Benzene and Substituted Benzenes
8 Isomers and Stereochemistry
9 Reactions of Alkanes. Radicals
10 Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
11 Reactions of Alcohols,Amines,Ethers, and Epoxides
12 Carbonyl Compounds l: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution
13 Carbonyl Compoundsll: Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones. More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
14 Carbonyl Compounds lll: Reactions at the a-Carbon
15 Determining the Structures of Organic Compounds
16 Carbohydrates
17 Amino Acids,Peptides, and Proteins
18 Enzymes, Coenzymes,and Vitamins
19 The Chemistry of Metabolism
20 Lipids
21 Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids
22 The Organic Chemistry of Drugs: Discovery and Design