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A market leading, traditional approach to organic chemistry throughout all eight editions, Organic Chemistry has been designed to meet the needs of the 'mainstream', two-semester, undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling text gives students a solid understanding of organic chemistry by stressing how fundamental reaction mechanisms function and reactions occur.

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Author:   Francis A. Carey
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw Hill Higher Education
Edition:   8th Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780070170438

ISBN 10:   0070170436
Publication Date:   01 November 2010
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Structure Determines Properties 2 Alkanes and Cycloakanes: Introduction to Hydrocarbons 3 Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Conformations and cis-trans Stereoisomers 4 Alcohols and Alkyl Halides 5 Structure and Preparation of Alkenes: Elimination Reactions 6 Addition Reactions of Alkenes 7 Stereochemistry 8 Nucleophilic Substitution 9 Alkynes 10 Conjugation in alkadienes and Allylic Systems 11 Arenes and Aromaticity 12 Reactions of Arenes: Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution 13 Spectroscopy 14 Organometallic Compounds 15 Alcohols, Diols, and Thiols 16 Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfides 17 Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition to the Carbonyl Group 18 Carboxylic Acids 19 Acid Derivatives 20 Enols and Enolates 21 Amines 22 Phenols 23 Carbohydrates 24 Lipids 25 Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins 26 Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids 27 Synthetic Polymers GLOSSARY CREDITS INDEX

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Francis A. Carey is a native of Philadelphia, educated at Drexel University (B.S. in chemistry), and at Penn State (Ph.D.). Following postdoctoral work at Harvard and military service, he served on the faculty of the University of Virginia from 1966 until retiring as Professor Emeritus in 2000. Robert M. Giuliano was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and attended Penn State (B.S. in chemistry) and the University of Virginia (Ph.D., under the direction of Francis Carey). Following postdoctoral studies with Bert Fraser-Reid at the University of Maryland, he joined the chemistry department faculty of Villanova University in 1982, where he is currently Professor. His research interests are in synthetic organic and carbohydrate chemistry, and in functionalized carbon nanomaterials.

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