Organic chemistry / John McMurry.

Includes index.

Structure and bonding -- Polar bonds and their consequences -- Organic compounds: alkanes and cycloalkanes -- Stereochemistry of alkanes and cycloalkanes -- An overview of organic reactions -- Alkenes: structure and reactivity -- Alkenes: reactions and synthesis -- Alkynes: an introduction to organic syntheseis -- Stereochemistry -- Alkyl halides -- Rections of alkyl halides: nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations -- Structure determination: mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy -- Structure determination: nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Conjugated dienes and ultraviolet spectroscopy -- Benzene and aromaticity -- Chemistry of benzene: electrophilic aromatic substitution -- A brief review of organic reactions -- Alcohols and phenols -- Etheres and expoxides; thiols and sulfides -- A preview of carbonyl compounds -- Aldehydes and ketones: nucleophilic addition reactions -- Carboxylic acids and nitriles -- Carboxylic acids derivatives and nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions -- Carbonyl alpha-substitution reactions -- Carbonyl condensation reactions -- Amines -- Biomolecules: carbohydrates -- Biomolecules: amino acids, peptides, and proteins -- Biomolecules: lipids -- Biomolecules: heterocycles and nucleic acids -- The organic chemistry of metabolic pathways -- Orbitals and organic chemistry: pericyclic reactions -- Synthetic polymers -- Appendixes: A - Nomenclature of polyfunctional organic compounds -- B - Acidity constants for some organic compounds -- C - Glossary -- D - Answers to selected in-text problems.