TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sykes,Peter
TI  - A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry
SN  - 0582446953 (pbk.) :
AV  - QD476 .S89 1986
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Harlow, Essex, England, New York, New York, NY
PB  - Longman, Wiley
KW  - Physical organic chemistry
KW  - Chemical reactions
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 396-398; Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism. * Energetics, Kinetics, and the Investigation of Mechanism. * The Strengths of Acids and Bases. * Nucleophilic Substitution at a Saturated Carbon Atom. * Carbocations, Electron-Deficient N and O Atoms and their Reactions. * Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Substitution in Aromatic Systems. * Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Addition to C=C. * Nucleophilic Addition to C=O. * Elimination Reactions. * Carbanions and Their Reactions. * Radicals and Their Reactions. * Symmetry Controlled Reactions. * Linear Free Energy Relationships. * Select Bibliography. * Index
N2  - classic textbook on mechanistic organic chemistry which is characterised particularly by its clarity, careful choice of examples and its general approach that is designed to lead to a ready understanding of the subject matter. This guidebook is aimed clearly at the needs of the student, with a thorough understanding of, and provision for, the potential conceptual difficulties he or she is likely to encounter
ER  -