Organic chemistry / Paula Yurkanis Bruice.

Previous ed.: Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

Includes index.

I AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CHEMISTRY 1 Electronic Structure and Bonding Acids and Bases 2 An Introduction to Organic Compounds: Nomenclature, Physical Properties, and Representation of Structure II ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION REACTIONS, STEREOCHEMISTRY, AND ELECTRON DELOCALIZATION 3 Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, and an Introduction to Reactivity Thermodynamics and Kinetics 4 The Reactions of Alkenes 5 Stereochemistry: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space; The Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions 6 The Reactions of Alkynes: An Introduction to Multistep Synthesis 7 Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, Reactivity, and pKa More About Molecular Orbital Theory III SUBSTITUTION AND ELIMINATION REACTIONS 8 Substitution Reactions of Alkyl Halides 9 Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides Competition between Substitution and Elimination 10 Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amine, and Sulfur- Containing Compounds 11 Organometallic Compounds 12 Radicals Reactions of Alkanes IV IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS 13 Mass Spectrometry, Infrared Spectroscopy, and Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy 14 NMR Spectroscopy V. AROMATIC COMPOUNDS 15 Aromaticity Reactions of Benzene 16 Reactions of Substituted Benzenes VI. CARBONYL COMPOUNDS 17 Carbonyl Compounds I: Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Derivatives 18 Carbonyl Compounds II: Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Reactions of , - Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds 19 Carbonyl Compounds III: Reactions at the - Carbon VII MORE ABOUT OXIDATION-REDUCTION REACTIONS AND AMINES 20 More About Oxidation-Reduction Reactions 21 More About Amines Heterocylic Compounds VIII BIOORGANIC COMPOUNDS 22 The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates 23 The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins 24 Catalysis 25 Compounds Derived from Vitamins 26 The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways 27 The Organic Chemistry of Lipids 28 The Chemistry of Nucleic Acids IX SPECIAL TOPICS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 29 Synthetic Polymers 30 Pericyclic Reactions 31 The Organic Chemistry of Drugs: Discovery and Design

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