ORGANIC CHEMISTRY------PHI
Description:
The second edition
of the book continues to offer a range of pedagogical features
maintaining the balanced approach of the text. The attempts have been
made to further strengthen the conceptual understanding by introducing
more ideas and a number of solved problems.
Comprehensive in approach, this text presents a rigorous treatment of organic chemistry to enable undergraduate students
to learn the subject in a clear, direct, easily understandable and
logical manner. Presented in a new and exciting way, the goal of this
book is to make the study of organic chemistry as stimulating,
interesting, and relevant as possible.
Beginning with the structures and properties of molecules, IUPAC
nomenclature, stereochemistry, and mechanisms of organic reactions,
proceeding next to detailed treatment of chemistry of hydrocarbons and
functional groups, then to organometallic compounds and
oxidation–reduction reactions, and ending with a study of selected
topics (such as heterocyclic compounds, carbohydrates, amino acids,
peptides and proteins, drugs and pesticides, dyes, synthetic polymers
and spectroscopy), the book narrates a cohesive story about organic
chemistry. Transitions between topics are smooth, explanations are
lucid, and tie-ins to earlier material are frequent to maintain
continuity.
The book contains over 500 solved problems from simple to really
challenging ones with suitable explanations. In addition, over 275
examples and solved problems on IUPAC nomenclature, with varying levels
of difficulty, are included.
About Some Key Features of the Book
• EXPLORE MORE: Four sets of solved problems provide
in-depth knowledge and enhanced understanding of some important
aspects of organic chemistry.
• MINI ESSAYS: Three small essays present
interesting write-ups to provide students with introductory knowledge
of chemistry of natural products such as lipids, terpenes, alkaloids,
steroids along with nucleic acids and enzymes.
• NOTABILIA: Twenty-two ‘notabilia boxes’
interspersed throughout the text highlight the key aspects of related
topics, varying from concepts of chemistry to the chemistry related to
day-to-day life.
• STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS NOT IN ORDER: Cites
examples of common errors made by students while drawing structural
formulae and displaying arrows in reaction mechanisms and helps them to
improve on language of organic chemistry by teaching appropriate
drawings and their significance.
• GLOSSARY: Includes ‘Name reactions’, ‘Reagents’, and some important terms for quick revision by students.
Clearly written and logically organized, the authors have endeavoured to
make this complex and important branch of science as easy as possible
for students to learn from and for teachers to teach from.
Contents:
Preface • Preface to the First Edition
1. Organic Molecules: Structure, Bonding and Properties
2. IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds
3. Stereochemistry
4. Fundamentals of Organic Reactions
Explore More (Set-I)
5. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
6. Alkenes
7. Alkadienes
8. Alkynes
9. Concepts of Aromaticity, and Benzene and Its Derivatives
10. Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution Reactions—Mechanism, Orientation and Reactivity
Explore More (Set-II)
11. Haloalkanes
12. Haloarenes
13. Monohydric Alcohols (Alkanols)
14. Ethers, Expoxides, Thiols and Thioethers
15. Polyhydric Alcohols (Diols and Triols)
16. Phenols
Explore More (Set-III)
17. Aliphatic Carbonyl Compounds (Alkanals and Alkanones)
18. Aromatic Aldehydes and Ketones
19. Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives
20. Bifunctional Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives
21. Aromatic Carboxylic and Sulfonic Acids
Mini Essay I (Lipids, Soaps and Detergents)
22. Aliphatic Nitrogen Containing Compounds [Amines, Nitro, Nitriles, Isonitriles, Isocyanates and Thiocyanates]
23. Aromatic Nitrogen Containing Compounds (Nitro, Amines and Diazonium Salts)
24. Polynuclear Hydrocarbons
Explore More (Set-IV)
25. Review—Part I: Organometallic Compounds, Part II: Oxidation—Reduction Reactions
26. Heterocyclic Compounds
27. Carbohydrates
28. Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins
Mini Essay II (Enzymes and Nucleic Acids)
29. Drugs and Pesticides
Mini Essay III (Terpenes, Alkaloids, Steroids)
30. Dyes
31. Synthetic Polymers
32. Spectroscopy and Structure
Appendix • Glossary • Index