Solomons' Organic Chemistry

T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781119249030
• Edition: 12
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Organic Chemistry

Solomons' Organic Chemistry has a strong legacy (over 50 years) of tried and true content. The authors are known for striking a balance between the theory and practice of organic chemistry. In this new edition special attention is paid towards helping students learn how to put the various pieces of organic chemistry together in order to solve problems. The notion of a "puzzle", or understanding how different molecules react together to create products, is a focus of the authors' pedagogy. A central theme of the authors' approach to organic chemistry is to emphasize the relationship between structure and reactivity. To accomplish this, the content is organized in a way that combines the most useful features of a functional group approach with one largely based on reaction mechanisms. The authors' philosophy is to emphasize mechanisms and their common aspects as often as possible, and at the same time, use the unifying features of functional groups as the basis for most chapters. The structural aspects of the authors' approach show students what organic chemistry is. Mechanistic aspects of their approach show students how it works.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• To the Student
• 1 The Basics BONDING AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
• 2 Families of Carbon Compounds FUNCTIONAL GROUPS, INTERMOLECULAR FORCES, AND INFRARED (IR) SPECTROSCOPY
• 3 Acids and Bases AN INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIC REACTIONS AND THEIR MECHANISMS
• 4 Nomenclature and Conformations of Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
• 5 Stereochemistry CHIRAL MOLECULES
• 6 Nucleophilic Reactions PROPERTIES AND SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS OF ALKYL HALIDES
• 7 Alkenes and Alkynes I PROPERTIES AND SYNTHESIS. ELIMINATION REACTIONS OF ALKYL HALIDES
• 8 Alkenes and Alkynes II ADDITION REACTIONS
• 9 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry TOOLS FOR STRUCTURE DETERMINATION
• 10 Radical Reactions
• 11 Alcohols and Ethers SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS
• 12 Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds OXIDATION–REDUCTION AND ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS
• 13 Conjugated Unsaturated Systems
• 14 Aromatic Compounds
• 15 Reactions of Aromatic Com-pounds
• 16 Aldehydes and Ketones NUCLEOPHILIC ADDITION TO THE CARBONYL GROUP
• 17 Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives NUCLEOPHILIC ADDITION-ELIMINATION AT THE ACYL CARBON
• 18 Reactions at the α Carbon of Carbonyl Compounds ENOLS AND ENOLATES
• 19 Condensation and Conjugate Addition Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds MORE CHEMISTRY OF ENOLATES
• 20 Amines
• 21 Transition Metal Complexes PROMOTERS OF KEY BOND-FORMING REACTIONS
• 22 Carbohydrates
• 23 Lipids
• 24 Amino Acids and Proteins
• 25 Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
• Answers to Selected Problems
• Glossary
• Index
• EULA