The Sixth Edition of a classic in organic chemistry continues its tradition of excellence

Now in its sixth edition, March's Advanced Organic Chemistry remains the gold standard in organic chemistry. Throughout its six editions, students and chemists from around the world have relied on it as an essential resource for planning and executing synthetic reactions.

The Sixth Edition brings the text completely current with the most recent organic reactions. In addition, the references have been updated to enable readers to find the latest primary and review literature with ease.

Each successive edition of March's continues to garner international praise. Here is what one reviewer said of the Fifth Edition:

"The book remains a tremendous value for the money . . . more pages per buck than most other texts . . . so it will remain a firm favorite as a general organic text and an easy-to-use one-volume reference . . . it will undoubtedly appear in all organic chemistry libraries and probably on many chemists' personal bookshelves too."

—Organic Process Research &Development

The Sixth Edition carries on the tradition of excellence with such new features as:

• More than 25,000 references to the literature to facilitate further research
• Revised mechanisms, where required, that explain concepts in clear modern terms
• Revisions and updates to each chapter to bring them all fully up to date with the latest reactions and discoveries
• A revised Appendix B to facilitate correlating chapter sections with synthetic transformations

This text on advanced organic chemistry is meant for graduate students who have had the standard undergraduate organic and physical chemistry courses. Smith (chemistry, U. of Connecticut) and the late March, who was professor of chemistry at Adelphi U., concentrate on reactions, mechanisms, and structures, organized by reaction types. Some areas are not covered, such as terpenes, carbohydrates, proteins, and combinatorial chemistry. This edition includes revised mechanisms that explain concepts in modern terms, updated chapters that contain the most recent reaction information, new references, and expanded coverage of metal-catalyzed coupling reactions, metathesis, and newly developed named reactions. The book contains comprehensive subject and author indexes. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"Who can hope to be seriously accepted as a member of the organic chemistry community without being in possession of at least one edition of 'March'?" (Chemistry & Industry,7th May 2007)

"...a favorite general organic chemistry text and an easy-to-use one-volume reference. We are confident that this book will remain a dominant reference and that it will reside on many chemists' personal bookshelves." (Journal of Hazardous Materials, March 22, 2007)

The Sixth Editionof a classic in organic chemistry continues its tradition of excellence Now in its sixth edition, March's Advanced Organic Chemistryremains the gold standard in organic chemistry. Throughout its six editions, students and chemists from around the world have relied on it as an essential resource for planning and executing synthetic reactions.

The Sixth Editionbrings the text completely current with the most recent organic reactions. In addition, the references have been updated to enable readers to find the latest primary and review literature with ease.

New features include:

• More than 25,000 references to the literature to facilitate further research
• Revised mechanisms, where required, that explain concepts in clear modern terms
• Revisions and updates to each chapter to bring them all fully up to date with the latest reactions and discoveries
• A revised Appendix B to facilitate correlating chapter sections with synthetic transformations

March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, Sixth Edition clearly explains the theories and examples of organic chemistry, providing the most comprehensive textbook in organic chemistry available. Readers are guided on planning and execution of multi-step synthetic reactions, with detailed descriptions of all the reactions. March's Sixth Edition proves again it is a must-have desktop reference and textbook for every student and professional working in organic chemistry or related fields.

Preface.

Biographical Note.

Abbreviations.

PART 1.

Chapter 1. Localized Chemical Bonding.

Chapter 2. Delocalized Chemical Bonding.

Chapter 3. Bonding Weaker than Covalent.

Chapter 4. Stereochemistry.

Chapter 5. Carbocations, Carbanions, Free Radicals, Carbenes, and Nitrenes.

Chapter 6. Mechanisms and Methods of Determining Them.

Chapter 7. Irradiation Processes in Organic Chemistry.

Chapter 8. Acids and Bases.

Chapter 9. Effects of Structure on Reactivity.

PART 2

Chapter 10. Aliphatic Substitution: Nucleophilic and Organometallic.

Chapter 11. Aromatic Substituion, Electrophilic.

Chapter 12. Aliphatic, Alkenyl, and Alkynyl Substitution, Electrophilic and Organometallic.

Chapter 13. Aromatic Substitution, Nucleophilic and Organometallic.

Chapter 14. Substitution Reactions: Free Radicals.

Chapter 15. Addition to Carbon-Carbon Multiple Bonds.

Chapter 16. Addition to Carbon-Hetero Multiple Bonds.

Chapter 17. Eliminations.

Chapter 18. Rearrangements.

Chapter 19. Oxidations and Reductions.

Appendix A. The Literature of Organic Chemistry.

Appendix B. Classification of Reactions by Type of Compound Synthesized

Indexes.

Author Index.

Subject Index.