Organic Chemistry, 6th Edition

Loudon and Parise’s Organic Chemistry is known for its clear writing, high standard of accuracy, and creative problems. This edition contains over 1,800 problems—many of them new and taken directly from the scientific literature. The book is used at a wide variety of schools, such as UC Berkeley, Caltech, Colorado, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Illinois, Maryland, Purdue, Yale, Wisconsin, and many more. This edition provides students with more health examples drawn from modern medical practice, as well as many cutting-edge topics from modern synthetic organic chemistry.

In addition to the printed book, students can rely on Sapling Learning’s online homework platform for extra learning and assessment. The platform offers automatic grading, an easy-to-use interface, and instructive feedback. Instructors can select from a variety of existing problem sets—over 1,000 of Loudon’s problems are in the platform!—or they can modify the questions or author them from scratch. Not only does the software allow students to easily draw and interact with structures, it allows them to draw entire reaction mechanisms, including showing the movement of electrons with curved electron arrows.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Chemical Bonding And Chemical Structure
Chapter 2 Alkanes
Chapter 3 Acids And Bases. The Curved-Arrow Notation
Chapter 4 Introduction To Alkenes. Structure And Reactivity
Chapter 5 Addition Reactions Of Alkenes
Chapter 6 Principles Of Stereochemistry
Chapter 7 Cyclic Compounds. Stereochemistry Of Reactions
Chapter 8 Noncovalent Intermolecular Interactions
Chapter 9 The Chemistry Of Alkyl Halides
Chapter 10 The Chemistry Of Alcohols And Thiols
Chapter 11 The Chemistry Of Ethers, Epoxides, Glycols, And Sulfides
Chapter 12 Introduction To Spectroscopy. Infrared Spectroscopy And Mass Spectrometry
Chapter 13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Chapter 14 The Chemistry Of Alkynes
Chapter 15 Dienes, Resonance, And Aromaticity
Chapter 16 The Chemistry Of Benzene And Its Derivatives
Chapter 17 Allylic And Benzylic Reactivity
Chapter 18 The Chemistry Of Aryl Halides, Vinylic Halides, And Phenols. Transition-Metal Catalysis
Chapter 19 The Chemistry Of Aldehydes And Ketones. Carbonyl-Addition Reactions
Chapter 20 The Chemistry Of Carboxylic Acids
Chapter 21 The Chemistry Of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
Chapter 22 The Chemistry Of Enolate Ions, Enols, And α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds
Chapter 23 The Chemistry Of Amines
Chapter 24 Carbohydrates
Chapter 25 The Chemistry Of Thioesters, Phosphate Esters, And Phosphate Anhydrides
Chapter 26 The Chemistry Of The Aromatic Heterocycles And Nucleic Acids
Chapter 27 Amino Acids, Peptides, And Proteins
Chapter 28 Pericyclic Reactions