Organic chemistry / John McMurry

Includes index.

Structure and bonding -- Polar bonds and their consequences -- Organic compounds: alkanes and cycloalkanes -- Stereochemistry of alkanes and cycloalkanes -- An overview of organic reactions -- Alkenes: structure and reactivity -- Alkenes: reactions and synthesis -- Alkynes: an introduction to organic syntheseis -- Stereochemistry -- Alkyl halides -- Rections of alkyl halides: nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations -- Structure determination: mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy -- Structure determination: nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Conjugated dienes and ultraviolet spectroscopy -- Benzene and aromaticity -- Chemistry of benzene: electrophilic aromatic substitution -- A brief review of organic reactions -- Alcohols and phenols -- Etheres and expoxides; thiols and sulfides -- A preview of carbonyl compounds -- Aldehydes and ketones: nucleophilic addition reactions -- Carboxylic acids -- Carboxylic acids derivatives and nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions -- Carbonyl alpha-substitution reactions -- Carbonyl condensation reactions -- Amines -- Biomolecules: carbohydrates -- Biomolecules: amino acids, peptides, and proteins -- Biomolecules: lipids -- Biomolecules: heterocycles and nucleic acids -- The organic chemistry of metabolic pathways -- Orbitals and organic chemistry: pericyclic reactions -- Synthetic polymers -- Appendixes: A -- Nomenclature of polyfunctional organic compounds -- B -- Acidity constants for some organic compounds -- C -- How to use SpartanBuild -- D -- Glossary -- E -- Answers to selected in-text problems.

Widely and consistently praised as the most clearly written book on the market. Why? In John McMurry's words: "I have been asked hundreds of times over the past ten years why I wrote this book. I wrote this book because I love writing. I get great pleasure and satisfaction from taking a complicated subject, turning it around until I see it clearly from a new angle, and then explaining it in simple words. I write to explain chemistry to students the way I wish it had been explained to me years ago." Through his lucid writing and ability to show the beauty and logic of organic chemistry, McMurry makes learning enjoyable for students. The highest compliment that can be given to a chemistry book applies to McMurry: It works! Mainstream in level, McMurry's coverage is concise yet doesn't omit any key topics. McMurry blends the traditional functional-group approach with a mechanistic approach. The primary approach, by functional group, begins with the simple and progresses to the more complex so that readers who are not yet versed in the subtleties of mechanisms are first exposed to the what of chemistry before beginning to grapple with the why. Within this primary organization, the author places a heavy emphasis on explaining the fundamental mechanistic similarities. Currently in use at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada, McMurry's Organic Chemistry is also an international bestseller from the United Kingdom to the Pacific Rim.