March's Advanced Organic Chemistry : Reactions, Mechanisms, And Structure. / Michael B. Smith

Includes bibliographical references and index.

part 1. Introduction. Localized chemical bonding -- Delocalized chemical bonding -- Bonding weaker than covalent -- Stereochemistry and conformation -- Carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, and nitrenes -- Mechanisms and methods of determining them -- Irradiation processes and techniques that influence reactions in organic chemistry -- Acids and bases -- Effects of structure and medium on reactivity -- part 2. Introduction. Aliphatic substitution, nucleophilic and organometallic -- Aromatic substitution, electrophilic -- Aliphatic, alkenyl, and alkynyl substitution, electrophilic and organometallic -- Aromatic substitution : nucleophilic and organometallic -- Radical reactions -- Addition to carbon-carbon multiple bonds -- Addition to carbon-heteroatom multiple bonds -- Elimination reactions -- Rearrangements -- Oxidations and reductions -- appendix A. The literature of organic chemistry -- appendix B. Classification of reactions by type of compounds synthesized

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