Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Essential Organic Chemistry

Table of Contents

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

1. An Introduction to Organic Compounds
2. Isomers: The Arrangement of Atomsin Space
3. Alkenes

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

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

1. Reactions at the a-Carbon of Carbonyl Compounds
2. Radicals
3. Synthetic Polymers
4. The Organic Chemistry of Carbohydrates
5. The Organic Chemistry of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
6. How Enzymes Catalyze Reactions

1. The Organic Chemistry of the Metabolic Pathways
2. The Organic Chemistry of Lipids
3. The Chemistry of the Nucleic Acids

Appendices I Physical Properties of Organic

• Compounds
• II.
• Answers to Selected Problems

Glossary