"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliographical Note. Abbreviations. PART 1. Localized Chemical Bonding. Delocalized Chemical Bonding. Bonding Weaker than Covalent. Stereochemistry. Carbocations, Carbanions, Free Radicals, Carbenes, and Nitrenes. Mechanisms and Methods of Determining Them. Photochemistry. Acids and Bases. Effects of Structure on Reactivity. PART 2. Aliphatic Nucleophilic Substitution. Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution. Aliphatic Electrophilic Substitution. Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution. Free-Radical Substitution. Addition to Carbon-Carbon Multipe Bonds. Addition to Carbon-Hetero Multipe Bonds. Eliminations. Rearrangements. Oxidations and Reductions. Appendix A: The Literature of Organic Chemistry. Appendix B: Classification of Reactions by Type of Compound Synthesized. Author Index. Subject Index.