Previous ed.: 2000.

Text on inside covers.

Includes index.

1. Covalent Bonding and Shapes of Molecules.2. Acids and Bases.3. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes.4. Alkenes and Alkynes.5. Reactions of Alkenes.6. Chirality and the Handedness of Molecules.7. Haloalkanes.8. Alcohols, Ethers, and Thiols.9. Benzene and its Derivatives.10. Amines.11. Infrared Spectroscopy.12. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.13. Aldehydes and Ketones.14. Carboxylic Acids.15. Functional Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids.16. Enolate Anions.17. Organic Polymer Chemistry.18. Carbohydrates.19. Amino Acids and Proteins.20. Nucleic Acids.21. Lipids.22. The Organic Chemistry of Metabolism.Appendix 1: Acid Ionization Constants for the Major Classes of Organic Acids.Appendix 2: Characteristic 1H-NMR Chemical Shifts.Appendix 3: Characteristic 13G-NMR Chemical Shifts.Appendix 4: Characteristic Infrared Absorption Frequencies.Glossary.Answers Section.Index.

This book enables readers to see the connections in organic chemistry and understand the logic. In this book reaction mechanisms are grouped together to reflect logical relationships. It discusses organic chemistry as it is applied to real world compounds and problems. Electrostatic potential plots are added throughout the text to enhance the recognition and importance of molecular polarity. It presents problems in a new Looking Ahead section at the end of each chapter that show how concepts constantly build upon each other. It converts many of the structural formulas to a line angle format in order to make structural formulas both easier to recognize and easier to draw.