Organic Chemistry, Global Edition, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (3 December 2024) © 2025

  • Paula Yurkanis Bruice University of California, Santa Barbara
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Organic Chemistry, Global Edition helps you build the conceptual foundations and chemical logic you need to understand organic chemistry rather than rely on memorization. You’ll develop a framework for reasoning through problems in synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry and medicine, while exploring topics from bonding, acids and bases, and stereochemistry to spectroscopy, carbonyl chemistry and bioorganic compounds. Synthetic and retrosynthetic chemistry are introduced early, helping you approach multistep synthesis from the beginning. Medical, environmental, biological and pharmaceutical applications also connect key concepts to real-life contexts and future careers.

Strengthen your problem-solving and critical-thinking skills through more than 2,000 problems, including over 300 new problems, alongside solved problems and problem-solving strategies. Learn how to approach synthesis and retrosynthetic analysis, understand patterns in organic reactions and apply spectroscopy techniques to identify compounds. Connections to medical, environmental, biological and pharmaceutical applications show how organic chemistry relates to real-world contexts and future careers. Reaction summaries and problem sets help you review key topics and reinforce essential skills, supporting an approach to organic chemistry based on understanding and application rather than memorization.

Who It's For

For students taking a 2-semester organic chemistry course.

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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