Synopses & Reviews
A classic textbook on mechanistic organic chemistry which is characterised particularly by its clarity, careful choice of examples and its general approach that is designed to lead to a ready understanding of the subject matter. This guidebook is aimed clearly at the needs of the student, with a thorough understanding of, and provision for, the potential conceptual difficulties he or she is likely to encounter.
Table of Contents
- Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism.
- Energetics, Kinetics, and the Investigation of Mechanism.
- The Strengths of Acids and Bases.
- Nucleophilic Substitution at a Saturated Carbon Atom.
- Carbocations, Electron-Deficient N and O Atoms and their Reactions.
- Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Substitution in Aromatic Systems.
- Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Addition to C=C.
- Nucleophilic Addition to C=O.
- Elimination Reactions.
- Carbanions and Their Reactions.
- Radicals and Their Reactions.
- Symmetry Controlled Reactions.
- Linear Free Energy Relationships.
- Select Bibliography.
- Index.