Essential organic chemistry /
Paula Yurkanis Bruice.
- New Dehli : Pearson, 2008
- xxiv, 593 p.
includes glossary and index
1. Electronic structure and covalent bonding 2. Acids and bases 3. An introduction to organic compounds: nomenclature, physical properties and respresentation of structure 4. Alkenes: structure, nomenclature, stability and an introduction to reactivity 5. Reactions of alkenes and alkynes: an introduction to multistep synthesis 6. Delocalized electrons and their effect on stanbility, reactivity and pka ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy 7. Aromaticity reactions of benzene and substituted benzenes 8. Isomers and sterechemistry 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: reactions of aldehydes and ketones, more reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives 14. Carbonyl compounds iii: reactions at the a-carbon 15. Determining the structures of organic compounds 16. Carbohydrates 17. Amino acids, peptides and proteins 18. Enzymes, coenzymes and vitamins 19. The chemistry of metabolism 20. Lipids 21. Nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids 22. The organic chemistry of drugs: discovery and design