Essential organic chemistry
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1. Remembering General Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Bonding 2. Acids and Bases: Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry TUTORIAL Acids and Bases 3. An Introduction to Organic Compounds 4. Isomers: The Arrangement of Atomsin Space 5. Alkenes TUTORIAL An Exercise in Drawing Curved Arrows: Pushing Electrons 6. The Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes 7. Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, pKa, and the Products of a Reaction Aromaticity and the Reactions of Benzene TUTORIAL Drawing Resonance Contributors 8. Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides 9. Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Thiols 10. Determining the Structure of Organic Compounds 11. Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives 12. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives 13. Reactions at the a-Carbon of Carbonyl Compounds 14. Radicals 15. Synthetic Polymers 16. The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates 17. The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins 18. How Enzymes Catalyze Reactions The Organic Chemistry of the Vitamins 1 (Online-only chapter) 19. The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways 20. The Organic Chemistry of Lipids 21. The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids Appendices I Physical Properties of Organic Compounds A-1 II. A-8 Answers to Selected Problems A-12 Glossary G-1