Organic chemistry / John McMurry, Cornell University.

Includes index.

Structure and Bonding -- Polar Covalent Bonds; Acids and Bases -- Organic Compounds: Alkanes and Their Stereochemistry -- Organic Compounds: Cycloalkanes and Their Stereochemistry -- Stereochemistry at Tetrahedral Centers -- An Overview of Organic Reactions -- Practice Your Scientific Analysis and Reasoning I: The Chiral Drug Thalidomide -- Alkenes: Structure and Reactivity -- Alkenes: Reactions and Synthesis -- Alkynes: An Introduction to Organic Synthesis -- Organohalides -- Reactions of Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitutions and Eliminations -- Practice Your Scientific Analysis and Reasoning II: From Mustard Gas to Alkylating Anticancer Drugs -- Structure Determination: Mass Spectrometry and Infrared Spectroscopy -- Structure Determination: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Conjugated Compounds and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy -- Practice Your Scientific Analysis and Reasoning III: Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) -- Benzene and Aromaticity -- Chemistry of Benzene: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution -- Alcohols and Phenols -- Ethers and Epoxides; Thiols and Sulfides -- Preview of Carbonyl Chemistry -- Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition Reactions -- Practice Your Scientific Analysis and Reasoning IV: SSRIs -- Carboxylic Acids and Nitriles -- Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution Reactions -- Carbonyl Alpha-Substitution Reactions -- Carbonyl Condensation Reactions -- Practice Your Scientific Analysis and Reasoning V: Thymine in DNA -- Amines and Heterocycles -- Biomolecules: Carbohydrates -- Biomolecules: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins -- Biomolecules: Lipids -- Practice Your Scientific Analysis and Reasoning VI: Melatonin and Serotonin -- Biomolecules: Nucleic Acids -- The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways -- Orbitals and Organic Chemistry: Pericyclic Reactions -- Practice your scientific analysis and reasoning VII: the potent antibiotic traits of endiandric Acid C -- Synthetic Polymers.

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