Table of Contents

Introduction in organic chemistry; the structural model of classical organic chemistry; optical activity, chirality, and symmetry of molecules; configurational analysis (demonstrated using carbohydrates examples); conformational analysis (demonstrated using steroid examples); macromolecular and supramolocular chemistry; the qualitative MO model; documentation and retrieval of chemical knowledge; symmetry point groups and space groups; determination of absolute configuration; NMR-spectroscopy; the special case of benzene; base-pairing in biology; and chemistry.