Organic Chemistry, 12th Edition

The 12th edition of Organic Chemistry continues Solomons, Fryhle & Snyder’s tradition of excellence in teaching and preparing students for success in the organic classroom and beyond.

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. And wherever an opportunity arises, the authors’ show students what it does in living systems and the physical world around us.

Table of Contents

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