TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sykes, Peter
TI  - Mechanism in Organic Chemistry
SN  - 9788177584332
U1  - 547 SYK-G 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Dorling Kindersley 
N1  - Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism.
Energetics, Kinetics, and the Investigation of Mechanism.
The Strengths of Acids and Bases.
Nucleophilic Substitution at a Saturated Carbon Atom.
Carbocations, Electron-deficient N and O Atoms and Their Reactions.
Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Substitution in Aromatic Systems.
Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Addition to C=C.
Nucleophilic Addition to C=O.
Elimination Reactions.
Carbanions and Their Reactions.
Radicals and Their Reactions.
Symmetry Controlled Reactions.
Linear Free Energy Relationships.
Salient Features
New — topics introduced in this edition : ipso aromatic substitution; the mechanistic borderline in nucleophilic substitution; more use of activation parameters; Dimorth’s ET parameter; Hammett’s óx and spectroscopic data; and 13C n.m.r. in biogenesis.
New — thoroughly revised text with improved explanations, more examples and increased clarity
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