includes index

1. What sis organic chemistry?
2. Bonding in organic molecules
3. Classes and nomenclature of organic compounds—functional groups
4. Characteristic reactions of organic compounds
5. Reaction mechanism
6. The shapes of molecule—stereochemistry
7. Structural effects on reactivity—resonance
8. Nucleophilic additions to the carbonyl group—the carboxylic acid family
9. Nucleophilic substitutions at saturated carbon
10. The scope of Nucleophilic substitution
11. The alpha carbon ion—Nucleophilic –electrophilic reactivity of carbonyl compounds
12. Nucleophilic additions and substitutions in synthesis
13. Elimination reactions—alkenes and alkynes
14. Additions to conjugated compounds
15. The mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitution
16. The scope of aromatic substitutions
17. Polycyclic and heterocyclic aromatic compounds
18. Organic synthesis
19. Carbohydrates and nucleosides
20. Amino acids ad proteins
21. Lipids
22. Free radicals
23. Natural and synthetic polymers
24. Molecular rearrangements
25. Photochemistry and electrochemistry spectroscopic methods