Organic Chemistry, Global Edition, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (December 3, 2024) © 2025

  • Paula Yurkanis Bruice University of California, Santa Barbara
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Title overview

For courses in 2-semester organic chemistry.

Understand and apply the foundations of organic chemistry. 

Organic Chemistry, Global Edition provides the conceptual foundations, chemical logic and problem-solving skills students need to reason their way to solutions for problems in synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. By building an organic chemistry framework, students can understand and apply learning rather than relying on memorisation.

The 9th Edition presents a wealth of problem-solving strategies, over 300 new problems (now totaling over 2,000), updated content and organisational changes to support the unique ways students acquire knowledge, study, practice and master organic chemistry.

Table of contents

  • PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  • 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: Nomenclature, Physical Properties, and Rotation About Single Bonds
  • PART 2: ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION REACTIONS, STEREOCHEMISTRY, AND ELECTRON DELOCALIZATION
  • TUTORIAL: Using Molecular Models to Understand Structure
  • 4. Isomers: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space
  • TUTORIAL: Interconverting Structural Representations
  • 5. Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, and an Introduction to Reactivity • Thermodynamics and Kinetics
  • TUTORIAL: Drawing Curved Arrows
  • TUTORIAL: Kinetics
  • 6. The Reactions of Alkenes • The Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions
  • TUTORIAL: An Overview of Functional Groups and How They React
  • 7. The Reactions of Alkynes • An Introduction to Multistep Synthesis
  • 8. Delocalized Electrons: Their Effect on Stability, pKa, and the Products of a Reaction • Aromaticity • Electronic Effects
  • TUTORIAL: Drawing Resonance Contributors
  • PART 3: SUBSTITUTION AND ELIMINATION REACTIONS
  • 9. Substitution and Elimination Reactions
  • 10. Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Sulfur-Containing Compounds • An Introduction to Organometallic Compounds
  • 11. Radicals
  • TUTORIAL: Drawing Curved Arrows in Radical Systems
  • TUTORIAL: Synthesizing Organic Compounds I
  • PART 4: IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
  • 12. Mass Spectrometry; Infrared Spectroscopy; UV/Vis Spectroscopy
  • 13. NMR Spectroscopy
  • PART 5: CARBONYL COMPOUNDS
  • 14. Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
  • 15. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones • More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
  • TUTORIAL: Predicting Mechanisms
  • 16. Reactions at the alpha-Carbon
  • TUTORIAL: Synthesizing Organic Compounds II
  • PART 6: AROMATIC COMPOUNDS
  • 17. Reactions of Benzene and Substituted Benzenes
  • 18. More About Amines • Reactions of Heterocyclic Aromatic Compounds
  • 19. Coupling Reactions and Metathesis
  • PART 7: BIOORGANIC COMPOUNDS
  • 20. The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
  • 21. Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
  • 22. Catalysis in Organic Reactions and in Enzymatic Reactions
  • 23. The Organic Chemistry of the Coenzymes—Compounds Derived from Vitamins
  • 24. The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways
  • 25. The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
  • 26. The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids
  • PART 8: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  • 27. Synthetic Polymers
  • 28. Pericyclic Reactions
  • APPENDICES
  • I. pKa Values
  • II. Summary of Methods Used to Synthesize a Particular Functional Group
  • III. Summary of Methods Employed to Form Carbon-Carbon Bonds
  • IV. Spectroscopy Tables
  • V. Physical Properties of Organic Compounds
  • VI. Answers to Selected Problems
  • MATH AND CHEMISTRY-BASED GLOSSARY
  • USEFUL REFERENCES
  • Organizing What We Know About the Reactions of Organic Chemistry
  • Periodic Table of the Elements
  • Common Functional Groups
  • Approximate pKa Values
  • Common Symbols and Abbreviations

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