Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (June 9, 1986) © 1986

  • Peter Sykes Christ's College, Cambridge
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A classic textbook on mechanistic organic chemistry which is characterised particularly by its clarity, careful choice of examples and its general approach that is designed to lead to a ready understanding of the subject matter. This guidebook is aimed clearly at the needs of the student, with a thorough understanding of, and provision for, the potential conceptual difficulties he or she is likely to encounter.

Table of contents

  1. Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism.
  2. Energetics, Kinetics, and the Investigation of Mechanism.
  3. The Strengths of Acids and Bases.
  4. Nucleophilic Substitution at a Saturated Carbon Atom.
  5. Carbocations, Electron-Deficient N and O Atoms and their Reactions.
  6. Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Substitution in Aromatic Systems.
  7. Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Addition to C=C.
  8. Nucleophilic Addition to C=O.
  9. Elimination Reactions.
  10. Carbanions and Their Reactions.
  11. Radicals and Their Reactions.
  12. Symmetry Controlled Reactions.
  13. Linear Free Energy Relationships.
  14. Select Bibliography.
  15. Index.

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