Organic Chemistry, Or, The Happy Carbon: An Introductory Text Emphasizing Biological ConnectionsThis Is A Course In Organic Chemistry. Yikes! Isn?T That The Killer Course That Sophomores Around The World Dread? Why Are They Teaching It To Us, Students Taking Our First Chemistry Course? How Will We Survive? |
Contents
Basic Concepts | 2 |
Electronic Structure | 19 |
The Periodic Table | 28 |
Bonding | 37 |
Problems | 55 |
20 | 88 |
Nitrogen Chemistry Amine Imines and Amides | 92 |
Problems | 94 |
Enantiomeric Excess | 429 |
Problems | 437 |
Elimination Reactions | 444 |
E2 Reactions | 450 |
Competition with Substitution Reactions | 460 |
Creation of Triple Bonds | 468 |
Alcohols and Ethers | 481 |
Thiols | 497 |
Doing It with Chemicals | 100 |
Alkanes and Cycloalkanes | 117 |
Conformational Analysis | 126 |
Problems | 140 |
3333 | 163 |
Acids and Bases | 168 |
How to Use These Numbers | 178 |
Lewis Acids and Bases | 188 |
Reaction Intermediates | 198 |
Problems | 208 |
Reactions | 215 |
Problems | 241 |
Alkenes II | 254 |
Bromination | 263 |
Synthesis Revisited | 276 |
Alkynes | 285 |
Problems | 301 |
Substitution Reactions | 305 |
Substitution Reactions of Alcohols | 324 |
Problems | 331 |
Structure Determination | 340 |
Spectroscopy | 346 |
Problems | 391 |
Chirality | 401 |
Absolute Stereochemistry | 421 |
Epoxides | 506 |
Problems | 512 |
Carbonyl Chemistry I Aldehydes and Ketones Carbohydrates | 526 |
Carbohydrates | 558 |
Problems | 565 |
Carbonyl Chemistry II Carboxylic Acids Acid Chlorides | 579 |
Carboxylic Acid Derivatives | 588 |
Problems | 607 |
Carbonyl Chemistry III Reactions Involving the a Carbon | 624 |
Problems | 655 |
Metabolic Transformations The Logic of Biological Reaction | 674 |
Transition | 683 |
Energy Budget | 691 |
Amines | 695 |
Imines | 703 |
Amides | 709 |
Problems | 724 |
39 | 730 |
Nomenclature | 737 |
Reactions | 746 |
Biological Aromatic Compounds | 762 |
Problems | 770 |
Afterword | 778 |
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Common terms and phrases
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