This is a workbook through which chemistry students can gain confidence in the parts of organic chemistry appropriate to first-year courses. Material is introduced through examples and students are then given worked examples and exercises to do (with answers).

Introduction ; 1. Nucleophiles and Electrophiles ; 2. Reactions and Mechanisms ; 3. Classification of Reactions ; 4. Acid/Base Reactions ; 5. Electrophile Addition ; 6. Electrophilic Substitutions - 1 ; 7. Electrophilic Substitutions - 2 ; 8. Nucleophilic Additions Containing Functional Groups ; 9. Nucleophilic Substitutions of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives ; 10. Nucleophilic Substitutions of Alkyl Halides ; 11. Reactions involving Acidic Proteins attached to Carbon - Aldehydes and Ketones ; 12. Reactions involving Acidic Proteins attached to Carbon - Elimination reactions of Alkyl Halides and Alcohols ; 13. Reduction and Oxidations ; 14. Radical Reactions

the author has achieved a good balance and provides a clear and user-friendly study guide...useful for first-year undergraduates, serving as an excellent reminder of essential basic structural organic chemistry./Chris Willis/Education in Chemistry September 1998.

the author has achieved a good balance and provides a clear and user-friendly study guide...useful for first-year undergraduates, serving as an excellent reminder of essential basic structural organic chemistry./Chris Willis/Education in Chemistry September 1998.