Organic Chemistry

by Bruice, Paula Yurkanis

• ISBN13: 9780130149527
• ISBN10: 0130149527
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

The book is organized to move the student away from the tendency to memorize. It therefore has a mechanistic approach organization: the functional groups are discussed in terms of mechanistic similarities. In this way a lot of material can be understood based on unifying principles.

Table of Contents

Electronic Structure and Bonding, Acids and Bases	p. 1
An Introduction to Organic Compounds: Nomenclature, Physical Properties, and Representation of Structure	p. 51
Reactions of Alkenes. Thermodynamics and Kinetics	p. 105
Stereochemistry: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space; The Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions	p. 178
Reactions of Alkynes	p. 242
Electron Delocalization, Resonance, and Aromaticity	p. 268
Reactions of Dienes	p. 310
Reactions of Alkanes: Radicals	p. 341
Substitution and Elimination Reactions at an sp[superscript 3]-Hybridized Carbon I: The Halogen Leaving Group	p. 368
Substitution and Elimination Reactions at an sp[superscript 3]-Hybridized Carbon II: Leaving Groups Other Than Halogen. Organometallic Compounds	p. 437
Oxidation-Reduction Reactions	p. 483
Identification of Organic Compounds by Mass Spectrometry and Infrared Spectroscopy	p. 521
Reactions of Benzene and Substituted Benzenes	p. 564
Identification of Organic Compounds by NMR Spectroscopy and Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy	p. 633
Carbonyl Compounds I: Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives with Oxygen and Nitrogen Nucleophiles	p. 706
Carbonyl Compounds II: Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds with Carbon and Hydrogen Nucleophiles. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones with Oxygen and Nitrogen Nucleophiles. Reactions of [alpha],[beta]-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds	p. 763
Carbonyl Compounds III: Reactions at the [alpha]-Carbon	p. 816
Carbohydrates	p. 870
Heterocyclic Compounds	p. 911
Pericyclic Reactions	p. 949
Multistep Organic Synthesis	p. 979
Synthetic Polymers	p. 1011
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins	p. 1043
Catalysis	p. 1089
The Organic Mechanisms of the Coenzymes	p. 1125
Lipids	p. 1168
Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids	p. 1199
The Organic Chemistry of Drugs: Discovery and Design	p. 1244
App. I Physical Properties of Organic Compounds	p. A
App. II pK[subscript a] Values	p. A-7
App. III Derivations of Rate Laws	p. A-9
App. IV Summary of Methods Used to Synthesize a Particular Functional Group	p. A-12
App. V Spectroscopy Tables	p. A-16
App. VI The Glycolytic Cycle and the Krebs Cycle	p. A-22
Answers to Selected Problems	p. A-24
Glossary	p. G-1
Index	p. I-1
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