ORGANIC CHEMISTRY BY Paula Yurkanis Bruice (Fourth Edition)

 

 One of the best books in basic organic chemistry, strongly recommended for undergraduate students of chemistry.

The chapters included in this book are divided into eight parts, depending upon their relevance.

Part I (Chapter 1 and 2) is an introduction the study of organic chemistry

Part II (Chapter 3-9) is about hydrocarbons, stereochemistry, and resonance

Part III (Chapter 10-12) discusses the substitution and elimination reactions

Part IV (Chapter 13 and 14) is about the identification of organic compounds with the help of different spectroscopic techniques

Part V (Chapter 15 and 16) discusses the chemistry of aromatic compounds

Part VI (Chapter 17-21) explains the carbonyl and amines chemistry

Part VII (Chapter 22-27) is about Bioorganic Compounds

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Part VIII (Chapter 28-30) discusses some special topics in organic chemistry, such as polymers, pericyclic reactions, and drug discovery and design

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.  Electronic Structure and Bonding-Acids and Bases

2.  An Introduction to Organic Compounds (Nomenclature, Physical          properties, and Representation of Structure)

3.  Alkenes (Structure, Nomenclature, and an introduction to              Reactivity) Thermodynamics and Kinetics

4.  Reactions of Alkenes

5.  Stereochemistry (The arrangement of atoms in space; The              stereochemistry of addition reactions)

6.  Reactions of Alkynes-Introduction to Multistep Synthesis

7.  Electron Delocalization and Resonance-More About Molecular            Orbital Theory

8.  Reactions of Dienes-Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy

9.  Reactions of Alkanes-Radicals

10. Substitution Reactions of Alkyl Halides

11. Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides-Competition Between            Substitution and Elimination

12. Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfur-Containing        Compounds-Organometallic Compounds

13. Mass Spectrometry and Infrared Spectroscopy

14. NMR Spectroscopy

15. Aromaticity-Reactions of Benzene

16. Reactions of Substituted Benzenes

17. Carbonyl Compounds I (Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution)

18. Carbonyl Compounds II (Nucleophilic Acyl Addition, Nucleophilic      Acyl Substitution, and Nucleophilic Addition-Elimination              Reactions  of a,b-unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds)

19. Carbonyl Compounds III (Reactions at the a-carbon)

20. More About Oxidation-Reduction Reactions

21. More About Amines-Heterocyclic Compounds

22. Carbohydrates

23. Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins

24. Catalysis

25. The Organic Mechanisms of Coenzymes-Metabolism

26. Lipids

27. Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids

28. Synthetic Polymers

29. Pericyclic Reactions

30. The Organic Chemistry of Drugs (Discovery and Design)

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