Organic Chemistry, 8th Edition

For courses in Organic Chemistry (2-Semester)

Paula Bruice’s presentation in Organic Chemistry, Eighth Edition provides mixed-science majors with the conceptual foundations, chemical logic, and problem-solving skills they need to reason their way to solutions for diverse problems in synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry, and medicine. The Eighth Edition builds a strong framework for thinking about organic chemistry by unifying principles of reactivity that students will apply throughout the course, discouraging memorization. With more applications than any other textbook, Dr. Bruice consistently relates structure and reactivity to what occurs in our own cells and reinforces the fundamental reason for all chemical reactions—electrophiles react with nucleophiles. New streamlined coverage of substitution and elimination, updated problem-solving strategies, synthesis skill-building applications and tutorials guide students throughout fundamental and complex content in both the first and second semesters of the course.

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Table of Contents

Part One: An Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry
Chapter 1 Remembering General Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Bonding
Chapter 2 Acids and Bases: Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry
Chapter 3 An Introduction to Organic Compounds: Nomenclature, Physical Properties, and Structure

Part Two: Electrophilic Addition Reactions, Stereochemistry, and Electron Delocalization
Chapter TUTORIAL Using Molecular Models
Chapter 4 Isomers: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space
Chapter 5 Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, and an Introduction to Reactivity • Thermodynamics and Kinetics
Chapter 6 The Reactions of Alkenes • The Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions
Chapter 7 The Reactions of Alkynes • An Introduction to Multistep Synthesis
Chapter 8 Delocalized Electrons: Their Effect on Stability, pKa, and the Products of a Reaction • A romaticity and Electronic Effects: An Introduction to the Reactions of Benzene
Chapter Part Three: Substitution and Elimination Reactions
Chapter 9 Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
Chapter 10 Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Sulfur-Containing Compounds
Chapter 11 Organometallic Compounds
Chapter 12 Radicals

Part Four: Identification of Organic Compounds
Chapter 13 Mass Spectrometry; Infrared Spectroscopy; UV/Vis Spectroscopy
Chapter 14 NMR Spectroscopy

Part Five: Carbonyl Compounds
Chapter 15 Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
Chapter 16 Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones • More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
Chapter 17 Reactions at the A-Carbon

Part Six: Aromatic Compounds
Chapter 18 Reactions of Benzene and Substituted Benzenes
Chapter 19 More About Amines • Reactions of Heterocyclic Compounds

Part Seven: Bioorganic Compounds
Chapter 20 The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
Chapter 21 Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
Chapter 22 Catalysis in Organic Reactions and in Enzymatic Reactions
Chapter 23 The Organic Chemistry of the Coenzymes, Compounds Derived from Vitamins
Chapter 24 The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways
Chapter 25 The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
Chapter 26 The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids

Part Eight: Special Topics in Organic Chemistry
Chapter 27 Synthetic Polymers
Chapter 28 Pericyclic Reactions