Organic Chemistry – Age 19 (Bachelor's)
Grade Equivalents
| 🇺🇸 United States | College Sophomore |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | University Year 2 |
| 🇮🇳 India | B.A./B.Sc. Year 2 |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | University Year 2 |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | University Year 2 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | University Year 2 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | University Year 2 |
About This Textbook
This textbook meets the scope and sequence of a two-semester introductory organic chemistry course. It follows a functional group approach.
Table of Contents
Structure and Bonding — Polar Covalent Bonds; Acids and Bases — Organic Compounds: Alkanes and Their Stereochemistry — Organic Compounds: Cycloalkanes and Their Stereochemistry — Stereochemistry at Tetrahedral Centers — An Overview of Organic Reactions — Alkenes: Structure and Reactivity — Alkenes: Reactions and Synthesis — Alkynes: An Introduction to Organic Synthesis — Organohalides — Reactions of Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitutions and Eliminations — Structure Determination: Mass Spectrometry and Infrared Spectroscopy — Structure Determination: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy — Conjugated Compounds and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy — Benzene and Aromaticity — Chemistry of Benzene: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution — Alcohols and Phenols — Ethers and Epoxides; Thiols and Sulfides — Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition Reactions — Carboxylic Acids and Nitriles — Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution Reactions — Carbonyl Alpha-Substitution Reactions — Carbonyl Condensation Reactions — Amines and Heterocycles — Biomolecules: Carbohydrates — Biomolecules: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins — Biomolecules: Lipids — Biomolecules: Nucleic Acids — The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways — Orbitals and Organic Chemistry: Pericyclic Reactions — Synthetic Polymers