Organic chemistry /
Francis A. Carey.
- 2nd ed.
- New York : McGraw-Hill, 1992
- xxx, 1274 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
Chemical bonding; alkanes; conformations of alkanes and cycloalkanes; alcohols and alkyl halides; structure and preparation of alkenes, addition reactions; stereochemistry; nucleophilic substitution; alkynes; conjugation in alkadienes and allylic systems; arenes and aromaticity; reactions of arenes, electrophilic aromatic substitution; spectroscopy; organometallic compounds; alcohols, diols, and thiols; ethers, epoxides and sulphides; aldehydes and ketones, nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group; enols, enolates, and enamines; carboxylic acids; carboxylic acid derivatives, nucleophilic acyl substitution; ester enolates; amines; aryl halides; phenols; carbohydrates; acetate-derived natural products; amino acids, peptides and proteins, nucleic acids. Appendices: physical properties; answers to in-text problems.