Contents:

ch 1 Electronic Structure and Bonding‧Acids and Bases
ch 2 An Introduction to Organic Compounds: Nomenclature, Physical Properties, and Representation of Structure

ch 3 Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, and an Introduction to Reactivity‧Thermodynammics and Kinetics

ch 4 The Reactions of Alkenes
ch 5 Stereochemistry: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space: The Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions

ch 6 The Reactions of Alkynes‧An Introduction to Multistep Synthesis

ch 7 Delocalilzed Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, Reactivity, and pKa‧More about Molecular Orbital Theory

ch 8 Substitution Reactions of Alkyl Halides
ch 9 Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides‧Competition between Substitution and Elimination

ch10 Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Sulfur-Containing Compounds

ch11 Organometallic Compounds
ch12 Radicals‧Reactions of Alkanes
ch13 Mass Spectrometry, Infrared Spectroscopy, and Ultraviolet / Visible Spectroscopy

ch14 NMR Spectroscopy
ch15 Aromaticity‧Reactions of Benzene
ch16 Reactions of Substituted Benzenes
ch17 Carbonyl Compounds I: Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

ch18 Carbonyl Compounds II: Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones‧More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives‧Reactions of alpha, Beta-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds

ch19 Carbonyl Compounds III: Reactions at the alpha-Carbon
ch20 More about Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
ch21 More about Amines‧Heterocyclic Compounds
ch22 The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
ch23 The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
ch24 Catalysis
ch25 The Organic Chemistry of the Coenzymes, Compounds Derived from Vitamins

ch26 The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways
ch27 The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
ch28 The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids
ch29 Synthetic Polymers
ch30 Pericyclic Reactions
ch31 The Organic Chemistry of Drugs: Discovery and Design

Appendices I Physical Properties of Organic Compounds
Appendices II Values
Appendices III Derivations of Rate Laws
Appendices IV Summary of Methods Used to Synthesize a Particular Functional Group

Appendices V Summary of Methods Employed to Form Carbon-Carbon Bonds

Appendices VI Spectroscopy Tables

Answers to Selected Problems
Glossary
Photo Credits
Index