Organic chemistry: a mechanistic approach/ Tadashi Okuyama and Howard Maskill

1. Chemical bonding and molecules ;

2. Molecular structure and shapes of organic molecules ;

3. Organic compounds: their functional groups, intermolecular interactions and physical properties ;

4. Conformation and strain in molecules ;

5. Conjugation, pi-electrion delocalization, and aromaticity ;

6. Acids and bases ;

7. Organic reactions and concept of mechanism ;

8. Nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group in aldehydes and ketones ;

9. Nucleophilic substitution of carboxylic acid derivatives ;

10. Reactions of carbonyl compounds with hydride donors and organometallic reagents ;

11. Stereochemistry and molecular chirality ;

12. Nucleophilic substitution reactions of haloalkanes and related compounds ;

13. Elimination reactions of haloalkanes and related compounds ;

14. Reactions of alcohols, ethers, thiols, sulfides, and amines ;

15. Addition reactions of alkenes and alkynes ;

16. Enolate anions and their reactions ;

17. Enolate ions, their equivalents and reactions ;

18. Reactions of nucleophiles with alkenes and aromatic compounds ;

19. Polycyclic and heterocyclic aromatic compounds ;

20. Rearrangement reactions ;

21. Pericyclic reactions: cycloadditions, electrocyclic reactions, and sigmatropic rearrangements ;

22. Rearrangement reactions involving polar molecules and ions ;

23. Biomolecules ;

24. Chemistry of biomolecules ;

25. Structural determination of organic compounds