A guidebook to mechanism in organic chemistry

Abstract

* Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism. * Energetics, Kinetics, and the Investigation of Mechanism. * The Strengths of Acids and Bases. * Nucleophilic Substitution at a Saturated Carbon Atom. * Carbocations, Electron-Deficient N and O Atoms and their Reactions. * Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Substitution in Aromatic Systems. * Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Addition to C=C. * Nucleophilic Addition to C=O. * Elimination Reactions. * Carbanions and Their Reactions. * Radicals and Their Reactions. * Symmetry Controlled Reactions. * Linear Free Energy Relationships. * Select Bibliography. * Index.