Organic Chemistry, 8th edition

Paula Yurkanis Bruice

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Organic Chemistry provides the conceptual foundations, chemical logic and problem-solving skills that you need to reason your way to solutions for diverse problems in synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. By building an organic chemistry framework that unifies principles of reactivity, you will understand and apply learning rather than relying on memorization.

The 8th Edition presents streamlined coverage of substitution and elimination, updated problem-solving strategies, synthesis skill-building applications and tutorials to guide you through fundamentals and complex content.

ISBN-13: 9780135213711

Subject: Chemistry

Category: Organic Chemistry

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 Structure

PART 2: ELECTROPHILIC ADDITION REACTIONS, STEREOCHEMISTRY, AND ELECTRON DELOCALIZATION

TUTORIAL: Using Molecular Models
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
6. The Reactions of Alkenes • The Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions
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 and Electronic Effects: An Introduction the Reactions of Benzene
TUTORIAL: Drawing Resonance Contributors

PART 3: SUBSTITUTION AND ELIMINATION REACTIONS

9. Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
10. Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Sulfur-Containing Compounds
11. Organometallic Compounds
12. Radicals
TUTORIAL: Drawing Curved Arrows in Radical Systems

PART 4: IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

13. Mass Spectrometry; Infrared Spectroscopy; and UV/Vis Spectroscopy
14. NMR Spectroscopy

PART 5: CARBONYL COMPOUNDS

15. Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
16. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones • More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
17. Reactions at the α-Carbon
TUTORIAL: Synthesis and Retrosynthetic Analysis

PART 6: AROMATIC COMPOUNDS

18. Reactions of Benzene And Substituted Benzenes
19. More About Amines • Reactions of Heterocyclic Compounds

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. pK_a Values
II. Kinetics
III. Summary of Methods Used to Synthesize a Particular Functional Group
IV. Summary of Methods Employed to Form Carbon-Carbon Bonds
V. Spectroscopy Tables
VI. Physical Properties of Organic Compounds
VII. Answers to Selected Problems