Organic chemistry

New edition of a text that combines the most useful features of the traditional functional group approach to organic chemistry with one based on reaction mechanisms. Practical applications show how the subject is related to much of the everyday world. The 25 chapters cover topics including carbon compounds and chemical bonds, acids and bases, alkanes, chiral molecules, ionic reactions, alkenes, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry, radical reactions, alcohols and ethers, alcohols for carbonyl compounds, conjugated unsaturated systems, aromatic compounds, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, chemistry of enolate anions, amines, phenols and aryl halides, carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and proteins, and nucleic acids and protein synthesis.

The basics -- Families of carbon compounds -- An introduction to organic reactions and their mechanisms -- Nomenclature and conformations of alkanes and cycloalkanes -- Stereochemistry -- Ionic reactions -- Alkenes and alkynes I -- Alkenes and alkynes II -- Nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry -- Radical reactions -- Alcohols and ethers -- Alcohols from carbonyl compounds -- Conjugated unsaturated systems -- aromatic compounds -- Reactions of aromatic compounds -- Reactions of aromatic compounds -- Aldehydes and ketones -- Carboxylic acids and their derivatives -- Reactions at the [alpha] carbon of carbonyl compounds -- Condensation and conjugate addition reactions of carbonyl compounds -- Amines -- Phenols and aryl halides -- Carbon-carbon bond-forming and other reactions of transistion metal organometallic compounds -- Carbohydrates -- Lipids -- Amino acids and proteins -- Nucleic acids and protein synthesis.