Essential Organic Chemistry, Global Edition -- Mastering Chemistrywith Pearson eText

1. Remembering General Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Bonding
2. Acids and Bases: Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry
TUTORIAL Acids and Bases
3. An Introduction to Organic Compounds
4. Isomers: The Arrangement of Atomsin Space
5. Alkenes
TUTORIAL An Exercise in Drawing Curved Arrows: Pushing Electrons
6. The Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes
7. Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, pKa, and the Products of a Reaction • Aromaticity and the Reactions of Benzene
TUTORIAL Drawing Resonance Contributors
8. Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
9. Reactions of Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Amines, and Thiols
10. Determining the Structure of Organic Compounds
11. Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
12. Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones • More Reactions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
13. Reactions at the a-Carbon of Carbonyl Compounds
14. Radicals
15. Synthetic Polymers
16. The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
17. The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
18. How Enzymes Catalyze Reactions • The Organic Chemistry of the Vitamins 1 (Online-only chapter)
19. The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways
20. The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
21. The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids
Appendices I Physical Properties of Organic
Compounds
A-1
II. A-8
Answers to Selected Problems A-12
Glossary G-1