Organic Chemistry

Concise and manageable, Fessenden and Fessenden's text has earned a reputation as a superb teaching text. One of the only books that students can get through cover to cover in two semesters, it is written in an economical style that stays focused on the main discussion. The authors anticipate student questions and answer them in the same chapter. Described by users as " the masters of the short sentence." Fessenden and Fessenden are renowned for their clear, to-the-point coverage and masterful selection of topics. The book provides a clear organization of functional groups according to sigma-bonding and pi-bonding to give students a conceptually efficient context that helps them understand the overall content of organic chemistry. Core topics for the course appear in Chapters 1-18 with more advanced and biochemical topics covered in 19-26. Essential information in each chapter is covered in earlier sections, leaving optional material for later sections.

ISBN 0534363407   Weight (grammes) 1998 ISBN13 9780534363406 (What's this?)   Published in CA Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc   Previous ISBN 9780534050887 Imprint Brooks/Cole   Height (mm) 257 Format Multimedia Item   Width (mm) 180 Publication date 10 Sep 1998   Spine width (mm) 43 Pages 1168   Academic level General, Undergraduate Volumes 1

1. ATOMS AND MOLECULES-A REVIEW Electron Structure of the Atom / Atomic Radius / Electronegativity / Introduction to the Chemical Bond / Chemical Formulas in Organic Chemistry / Attractions Between Molecules / Acids and Bases 2. ORBITALS AND THEIR ROLE IN COVALENT BONDING Properties of Waves / Bonding in Hydrogen / Some General Features of Bonding and Antibonding Orbitals / Hybrid Orbitals of Carbon / Functional Groups / Hybrid Orbitals of Nitrogen and Oxygen / Conjugated Double Bonds / Benzene / Resonance 3. STRUCTURAL ISOMERISM, NOMENCLATURE, AND ALKANES Structural Isomers / How Organic Nomenclature Developed / A Survey of Organic Nomenclature / Alkenes / The Hydrocarbon Resources 4. STEREOCHEMISTRY Geometric Isomerism in Alkenes / Geometric Isomerism in Cyclic Compounds / Conformations of Open-Chain Compounds / Shapes of Cyclic Compounds / The Conformers of Cyclohexane / Chirality / Rotation of Plane-Polarized Light / Assignment of Configuration: the and (S) System / More Than One Chiral Carbon / Prochirality / Resolution of a Racemic Mixture 5. ALKYL HALIDES; SUBSTITUTION AND ELIMINATION REACTIONS Types of Organohalogen Compounds / Nomenclature and Classification of Alklyl Halides / A Preview of Substitution and Elimination Reactions / The SN2 Reaction / The SN1 Reaction / Substitution Reactions of Allylic Halides and Benzylic Halides / The E1 Reaction / The E2 Reaction / Factors Governing Substitution and Elimination Reactions / Synthesizing Other Compounds from Alkyl Halides 6. FREE-RADICAL REACTIONS A Typical Radical Reaction: Chlorination of Methane / Relative Reactivities of Halogens / Stereochemistry of Radical Halogenation / Hydrogen Abstraction: The Rate-Determining Step / Selective Radical Halogenations / Other Radical Reactions / Free-Radical Initiators and Inhibitors / Polymers 7. ALCOHOLS Nomenclature and Classification of Alcohols / Basicity and Acidity of Alcohols / Preparation of Alcohols / Substitution Reactions of Alcohols / Other Reagents Used to Convert Alcohols to Alkyl Halides / Elimination Reactions of Alcohols / Esters of Alcohols / Oxidation of Alcohols / Use of Alcohols in Synthesis / Synthesis Problems 8. ETHERS, EPOXIDES, AND SULFIDES Nomenclature of Ethers and Epoxides / Preparation of Ethers and Epoxides / Substitution Reactions of Ehters / Substitution Reactions of Epoxides / Crown Ethers / Thiols and Sulfides 9. SPECTROSCOPY I: INFRARED AND NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE Electromagnetic Radiation / Features of a Spectrum / Absorption of Infrared Radiation / The Infrared Spectrum / Interpretation of Infrared Spectra / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Types of Induced Molecular Magnetic Fields / Counting the Protons / Spin-Spin Coupling / Splitting Patterns / Spin-Spin Splitting Diagrams / Carbon-13 NMR Spectroscopy / Using Infrared and NMR Spectra for the Identification of Organic Structures 10. ALKENES AND ALKYNES Bonding in Alkenes and Alkynes; Acidity of Alkynes / Nomenclature of Alkenes and Alkynes / Spectra of Alkenes and Alkynes / Preparation of Alkenes and Alkynes / Preview of Addition Reactions / Addition of Hydrogen Halides to Alkenes and Alkynes / Addition of H2SO4 and H20 to Alkenes and Alkynes / Hydration Using Mercuric Acetate / Addition of Borane Alkenes / Addition of Halogens to Alkenes and Alkynes / Addition of Carbenes to Alkenes / Catalytic Hydrogenation / Oxidation of Alkenes / Use of Alkenes and Alkynes in Synthesis 11. AROMATICITY AND BENZENE; ELECTROPHILIC AROMATIC SUBSTITUTION Nomenclature of Substituted Benzenes / Spectra of Substituted Benzenes / Stability of the Benzene Ring / The Bonding in Benzene / What is an Aromatic Compound? / Requirements for Aromaticity / Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution / The First Substitution / The Second Substitution / The Third Substitution 12. SUBSTITUTED BENZENES Alkylbenzenes / Phenols / Benzenediazonium Salts / Halobenzenes and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution / Synthesis Us

"Eminently appropriate for our students. The organization of this text is not matched by any other that I have seen. . . . Only Fessenden proceeds logically from sigma-bond chemistry to non-polar pi-bond chemistry to aromatic pi-bond chemistry and then to polar pe-bond chemistry. This organization is the result of an insight few, if any, authors have had."

 Be the first to write a customer review