Essential Organic Chemistry, 1/e

• Focus on mechanisms to enhance understanding over memory.
• Clear and accessible writing style to make the material easy for students to understand.
• Problems at the end of each section in all chapters to enable students monitor their progress.
• Over 100 special-interest boxes throughout the text designed to illustrate the connection between organic chemistry and familiar aspects of the world.
• Reactions organized according to mechanisms that help students recognize similarities and patterns.

Contents

1. Electronic Structure and Covalent Bonding
2. Acids and Bases
3. An Introduction to Organic Compounds
4. Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, Stability, and an Introduction to Reactivity
5. Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes: An Introduction to Multi-Step Synthesis
6. Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, Reactivity, and pKa
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 I: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution
13. Carbonyl Compounds II: More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
14. Carbonyl Compounds III: Reactions at the x-Carbon
15. Determining the Structure of Organic Compounds
16. Carbohydrates
17. Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
18. Enzymes, Coenzymes, and Vitamins
19. Metabolism
20. Lipids
21. Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids
22. The Organic Chemistry of Drugs

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