Brief Contents:

ch 1 Electronic Structure and Covalent Bonding
ch 2 Acids and Bases
ch 3 An Introduction to Organic Compounds: Nomenclature,
Physical Properties, and Representation of Structure

ch 4 Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, Stability, and an
Introduction

ch 5 The Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes: An Introduction to
Multistep Synthesis

ch 6 Isomers and Stereochemistry
ch 7 Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability,
Reactivity, and pKa.

ch 8 Aromaticity: Reactions of Benzene and Substituted Benzenes
ch 9 Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
ch10 Reactions of Alcohols, Amines, Ethers, and Epoxides
ch11 Carbonyl Compounds I: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution
ch12 Carbonyl Compounds II: Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones‧
More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

ch13 Carbonyl Compounds III: Reactions at the alpha-Carbon
ch14 Determining the Structures of Organic Compounds
ch15 The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
ch16 The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
ch17 How Enzymes Catalyze Reactions‧The Organic Chemistry of
Vitamins

ch18 The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways
ch19 The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
ch20 The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids
ch21 The Organic Chemistry of Drugs‧Discovery and Design

Appendices I Physical Properties of Organic Compounds
Appendices II pKa Values
Appendices III Spectroscopy Tables

Answers to Selected Problems
Glossary
Photo Credits
Index