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Organic Chemistry
For two-term courses in Organic Chemistry taken primarily by science and pre-health majors. This text, organized with a traditional functional-group approach, applies the most modern teaching and pedagogical techniques to the study of organic chemistry. In a highly accessible fashion, this top-selling text bridges the gap between conceptual understanding and actual application-while strongly emphasizing the development of problem-solving skills. Additionally, it provides up-to-date aspects of spectroscopy, relevant photographs, and many applications to polymer chemistry integrated throughout the text.
- Enhanced spectroscopy: 300 MHz spectra have been introduced where appropriate.
- Unique problem solving messages aid students in organising their thoughts to approach a problem.
- More than 190 Problem-solving hints spotlight, summarise and clarify approaches that are useful in solving problems.
- Reaction summaries summarise the characteristics of all possible syntheses and reactions of each functional group to provide students with the 'big picture' overview.
- Stereochemistry is covered early (Ch. 5), before substitutions and eliminations. This allows an increased application of stereochemistry in later reaction mechanisms. Focused discussion of mechanisms is introduced early on and is a unifying theme.
- Introduction and Review
- Structure and Properties of Organic Molecules
- Structure and Stereochemistry of Alkanes
- The Study of Chemical Reactions
- Stereochemistry
- Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination
- Structure and Synthesis of Alkenes
- Reactions of Alkenes
- Alkynes
- Structure and Synthesis of Alcohols
- Reactions of Alcohols
- Infrared Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
- Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfides
- Conjugated Systems, Orbital Symmetry, and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
- Aromatic Compounds
- Reactions of Aromatic Compounds
- Ketones and Aldehydes
- Amines
- Carboxylic Acids
- Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
- Alpha Substitutions and Condensations of Enols and Enolate Ions
- Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids
- Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
- Lipids
- Synthetic Polymers
- Appendices
- Answers to Selected Problems
- Index
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