Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A: Structure and Mechanisms

This book, which has become the standard text for graduate students, provides the basis for deeper understanding of the structure of organic compounds and the mechanisms of organic reactions. In this revised volume, the topics of aromaticity and the reactions of aromatic compounds have been divided into two chapters. The chapter on free radical reactions has been reworked to emphasize the distinctive mechanistic and kinetic aspects of these reactions.Part A of this revised, two-volume text provides the reader with a basis for a clearer understanding of the structures of organic compounds and the mechanisms of organic reactions. Carey and Sundberg treat the topics of aromaticity and the reactions of aromatic compounds in two separate chapters and have extensively reworked the chapter on free radical reactions to emphasize their distinctive mechanistic and kinetic aspects.

Preface to the Fourth Edition. Part A: Structure and Mechanisms. 1. Chemical Bonding and Structure. 2. Stereochemical Principles. 3. Conformational, Steric, and Stereoelectronic Effects. 4. Study and Description of Organic Reaction Mechanisms. 5. Nucleophilic Substitution. 6. Polar Addition and Elimination Reactions. 7. Cabanions and Other Nucleophilic Carbon Species. 8. Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds. 9. Aromaticity. 10. Aromatic Substitution. 11. Concerted Pericyclic Reactions. 12. Free-Radical Reactions. 13. Photochemistry. References. Index.