Includes glossary of terms and index

1. Carbon compounds and chemical bonds1
2. Representative carbon compounds: functional groups, intermolecular forces, and infrared (IR) spectroscopy
3. An introduction to organic reactions: acids and bases
4. Alkanes: nomenclature, conformational analysis and an introduction to synthesis
5. Stereochemistry: chirai molecules
6. Ionic reactions—Nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions of alkyl halides
7. Alkenes and alkynes 1: properties and synthesis elimination reactions of alkyl halides
8. Alkenes and alkynes 2: addition reaction
9. Nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy: tools for structure determination
10. Radical reaction
11. Alcohols and ethers
12. Alcohols from carbonyl compounds, oxidation reduction and roganometallic compounds
13. Conjugated unsaturated systems
14. Aromatic compounds
15. Reactions of aromatic compounds
16. Aldehydes and ketones 1: Nucleophilic addition of the carbonyl group
17. Aldehydes and ketones 2: aldol reactions
18. Carboxylic acids and their derivatives nucleophillic addition – elimination at the acyl carbon
19. Synthesis and reactions of B-dicarbonyl compounds: more chemistry of enolate ions
20. Amines
21. Phenols and aryl halides: nucleophillic aromatic substitution
22. Carbohydrates
23. Lipids
24. Amino acids and proteins
25. Nucleic acids and protein synthesis