STUDY GUIDE TO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Acknowledgements.
To the Students.
Note.
Structure and Properties.
Methane: Energy of Activation, Transition State.
Alkanes: Free-Radical Substitution. Stereochemistry I—Stereoisomers.
Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution.
Alcohols and Ethers.
Role of the Solvent: Secondary Bonding.
Alkenes I—Structure and Preparation: Elimination.
Alkenes II—Reactions of the Carbon-Carbon Double Bond: Electrophilic and Free-Radical Addition.
Stereochemistry II—Stereoselective and Stereospecific Reactions.
Conjugation and Resonance: Dienes.
Alkynes.
Cyclic Aliphatic Compounds.
Aromaticity: Benzene.
Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution.
Aromatic- Aliphatic Compounds: Arenes and Their Derivatives.
Spectroscopy and Structure.
Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition.
Carboxylic Acids.
Functional Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids: Nucleophilic Acyl,Substitution.
Carbanions I: Aldol and laisen Condensations.
Amines I: Preparation and Physical Properties.
Amines II: Reactions.
Phenols.
Carbanions II: Malonic Ester and Acetoacetic Ester Syntheses.
Aryl Halides: Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution.
a, b—Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds: Conjugate Addition.
Molecular Orbitals.
Orbital Symmetry.
Symphoria: Neighboring Group Effects, Catalysis by Transition Metal Complexes.
Heterocyclic Compounds.
Macromolecules.
Polymers and Polymerization.
Stereochemistry III: Enantiotopic and Diastereotopic Ligands and Faces.
Lipids: Fats and Steroids.
Carbohydrates I: Monosaccharides.
Carbohydrates II: Disaccharides and Polysaccharides.
Proteins and Nucleic Acids: Molecular Biology.
Analysis of Spectra.
Salient Features
The earlier chapters on fundamentals have been streamlined.
Key topics such as nucleophilic substitution, elimination, addition, conjugation and stereoselectivity find an easy and effective introduction in the revised version.
Alcohols and Ethers are now treated in Chapter 6 (immediately following nucleophilic substitution) which permits realistic use of oxygen compounds in the chemistry that follows.
Removal of redundant and outdated material has made the study guide slimmer by 200 pages.