Organic Chemistry/ T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Synder

Includes index.

The basics: bonding and molecular structure -- Families of carbon compounds: functional groups, intermolecular forces, and infrared(IR) spectroscopy -- An introduction to organic reactions and their mechanisms: acids and bases -- Nomenclature and conformations of alkanes and cycloalkanes -- Stereochemistry: chiral molecules -- Nucleophilic reactions: properties and substitution reactions of alkyl halides -- alkenes and alkynes I; properties and synthesis. Elimination reactions of alkyl halides -- alkenes and alkynes II: addition and oxidation reactions --Nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry: tools for structure determination -- Radical reactions -- Alcohol and ethers: synthesis and reactions -- Alcohols from carbonyl compounds: oxidation-reduction and organometallic compounds -- Conjugated unsaturated systems -- Aromatic compounds -- Reactions of Aromatic compounds -- Aldehydes and kenotes: nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group -- Carboxylic acids and their derivatives: Nucleophilic addition-elimination at the acyl carbon -- reactions at the carbon of carbonyl compounds: more chemistry of enolates -- Amines -- Transition metal complexes; promoters of key bond-forming reactions -- Carbohydrate -- Lipids -- Amino acids and proteins -- Nucleic acids and protein synthesis