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This concise text provides students with the basis for understanding the chemical aspects of life processes. The first chapter introduces key aspects of organic chemistry, such as atomic and molecular structure, mechanism, nomenclature and stereochemistry. Building upon these principles, the next four chapters describe the chemistry of simple organic molecules providing a stepping stone to more complex molecules of biological importance which are covered in the final chapters.
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Preface to Fourth Edition 1. Basic Principles: atomic and molecular structure, nomenclature, stereochemistry and mechanism 2. Simple organic oxygen and sulphur compounds: alcohols, phenols and ethers and their sulphur analogues 3. Carbonyl compounds: aldehydes and ketones 4. Carbonyl compounds: carboxylic acids and their derivatives 5. Simple organic nitrogen compounds: amines 6. Carbohydrates 7. Amino acids, peptides and proteins 8. Aromatic compounds, nucleic acids and nucleotide coenzymes 9. Lipids Index
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