Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Essential Organic Chemistry

Table of Contents



Remembering General Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Bonding
Acids and Bases: Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry

TUTORIAL Acids and Bases

An Introduction to Organic Compounds
Isomers: The Arrangement of Atomsin Space
Alkenes

TUTORIAL An Exercise in Drawing Curved Arrows: Pushing Electrons

The Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes
Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, pKa, and the Products of a Reaction · Aromaticity and the Reactions of Benzene

TUTORIAL Drawing Resonance Contributors

Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Thiols
Determining the Structure of Organic Compounds
Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones

More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

Reactions at the a-Carbon of Carbonyl Compounds
Radicals
Synthetic Polymers
The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
How Enzymes Catalyze Reactions

The Organic Chemistry of the Vitamins 1 (Online-only chapter)

The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways
The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids

Appendices I Physical Properties of Organic

Compounds
II.
Answers to Selected Problems

Glossary