Organic Chemistry, 8th Edition

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY is a student-friendly, cutting edge introduction for chemistry, health, and the biological sciences majors. In the Eighth Edition, award-winning authors build on unified mechanistic themes, focused problem-solving, applied pharmaceutical problems and biological examples. Stepwise reaction mechanisms emphasize similarities among mechanisms using four traits: breaking a bond, making a new bond, adding a proton, and taking a proton away. Pull-out organic chemistry reaction roadmaps designed stepwise by chapter help students devise their own reaction pathways. Additional features designed to ensure student success include in-margin highlighted integral concepts, new end-of-chapter study guides, and worked examples. This edition also includes brand new author-created videos. Emphasizing “how-to” skills, this edition is packed with challenging synthesis problems, medicinal chemistry problems, and unique roadmap problems.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Covalent Bonding and Shapes of Molecules
Chapter 2: Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
Chapter 3: Stereoisomerism and Chirality
Chapter 4: Acids and Bases
Chapter 5: Alkenes: Bonding, Nomenclature, and Properties
Chapter 6: Reactions of Alkenes
Chapter 7: Alkynes
Chapter 8: Haloalkanes, Halogenation, and Radical Reactions
Chapter 9: Nucleophilic Substitution and b-Elimination
Chapter 10: Alcohols
Chapter 11: Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfides
Chapter 12: Infrared Spectroscopy
Chapter 13: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Chapter 14: Mass Spectrometry
Chapter 15: An Introduction to Organometallic Compounds
Chapter 16: Aldehydes and Ketones
Chapter 17: Carboxylic Acids
Chapter 18: Functional Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids
Chapter 19: Enolate Anions and Enamines
Chapter 20: Dienes, Conjugated Systems, and Pericyclic Reactions
Chapter 21: Benzene and the Conceptof Aromaticity
Chapter 22: Reactions of Benzene and Its Derivatives
Chapter 23: Amines
Chapter 24: Catalytic Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
Chapter 25: Carbohydrates
Chapter 26: Lipids
Chapter 27: Amino Acids and Proteins
Chapter 28: Nucleic Acids
Chapter 29: Organic Polymer Chemistry