Organic Chemistry I For Dummies

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with Organic Chemistry 5

Chapter 1: The Wonderful World of Organic Chemistry 7

Chapter 2: Dissecting Atoms: Atomic Structure and Bonding 15

Chapter 3: Speaking with Pictures: Drawing Structures 35

Chapter 4: Covering the Bases (And the Acids) 57

Chapter 5: Reactivity Centers: Functional Groups 67

Chapter 6: Seeing in 3-D: Stereochemistry 81

Part 2: Hydrocarbons 97

Chapter 7: What's in a Name? Alkane Nomenclature 99

Chapter 8: Drawing Alkanes 107

Chapter 9: Seeing Double: The Alkenes 123

Chapter 10: Reactions of Alkenes 137

Chapter 11: It Takes Alkynes: The Carbon-Carbon Triple Bond 149

Part 3: Functional Groups 157

Chapter 12: Replacing and Removing: Substitution and Elimination Reactions 159

Chapter 13: Getting Drunk on Organic Molecules: The Alcohols 175

Chapter 14: Side-by-Side: Conjugated Alkenes and the Diels-Alder Reaction 183

Chapter 15: Lord of the Rings: Aromatic Compounds 193

Chapter 16: Bringing Out the Howitzers: Reactions of Aromatic Compounds 209

Part 4: Spectroscopy and Structure Determination 223

Chapter 17: A Smashing Time: Mass Spectrometry 225

Chapter 18: Seeing Good Vibrations: IR Spectroscopy 241

Chapter 19: NMR Spectroscopy: Hold onto Your Hats, You're Going Nuclear! 253

Chapter 20: Following the Clues: Solving Problems in NMR 273

Part 5: The Part of Tens 293

Chapter 21: Ten (Or So) Great Organic Chemists 295

Chapter 22: Ten Cool Organic Discoveries 301

Chapter 23: Ten Cool Organic Molecules 307

Part 6: Appendixes 313

Appendix A: Working Multistep Synthesis Problems 315

Appendix B: Working Reaction Mechanisms 323

Appendix C: Glossary 329

Index 339