Table of Contents

Carbon Compounds and Chemical Bonds; Representative Carbon Compounds; Acids and Bases in Organic Chemistry; Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Conformations of Molecules; Stereochemistry: Chiral Molecules; Ionic Reactions--Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides; Radical Reactions; Alkenes and Alkynes 1: Properties and Synthesis; Alkenes and Alkynes 2: Addition Reactions; Alcohols and Ethers; Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds: Oxidation-Reduction and Organometallic Compounds; Conjugated Unsaturated Systems; Aromatic Compounds; Spectroscopic Methods of Structure Determination; Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution; Aldehydes and Ketones 1: Nucleophilic Additions to the Carbonyl Group; Aldehydes and Ketones 2: Aldol Reactions; Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives: Nucleophilic Substitution at the Acyl Carbon; Amines; Synthesis and Reactions of -Dicarbonyl Compounds: More Chemistry of Enolate Ions; Phenols and Aryl Halides: Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution; Carbohydrates; Lipids; Amino Acids and Proteins; Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis; Answers to Selected Problems; Bibliography; Index.