Organic chemistry

"Now in a new edition, this book continues its tradition of excellence in teaching and preparing students for success in the organic classroom and beyond. A central theme of the authors' approach to organic chemistry is to emphasize the relationship between structure and reactivity. To accomplish this, the text is organized in a way that combines the most useful features of a functional group approach with one largely based on reaction mechanisms. Emphasizing mechanisms and their common aspects as often as possible, this book shows students what organic chemistry is, how it works, and what it does in living systems and the physical world around us"--

Includes index.

The basics : bonding and molecular structure -- Families of carbon compounds : functional groups, intermolecular forces, and Infrared (IR) -- Acids and bases : an introduction to organic reactions and their mechanisms -- Nomenclature and conformations of alkanes and cycloalkanes -- Stereochemistry : chiral molecules -- Ionic Reactions : nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions of alkyl halides -- Alkenes and alkynes I : properties and synthesis. Elimination reactions of alkyl halides -- Alkenes and alkynes II : addition reactions -- Nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy : tools for structure determination -- Radical reactions -- Alcohols and ethers -- Alcohols from carbonyl compounds : oxidation-reduction and organometallic compounds -- Conjugated unsaturated systems -- Aromatic compounds -- Reactions of aromatic compounds -- Aldehydes and ketones : nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group -- Carboxylic acids and their derivatives : nucleophilic addition-elimination at the acyl carbon -- Reactions at the [alpha] carbon of carbonyl compounds : enols and enolates -- Condensation and conjugate addition reactions of carbonyl compounds : more chemistry of enola…