Essential Material of Each of the Book's Chapters
From Cellulose and Starch to the Principles of Structure and Stereochemistry
A Survey of the Experiments Usually Performed by Chemists to Understand the Structures
of Organic Molecules: Mass Spectrometers, Infrared Spectrometers and Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Spectrometers
From Galactosemia to the Properties of Six-membered Rings: An Introduction to the
Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions
Understanding Carbocations: From the Production of High Octane Gasoline to the Nature
of Acids and Bases
Carbocations in Living Processes
Aromatic-A word that Came to Mean Something Other than Odor in the Chemical Sciences
Fatty Acid Catabolism and the Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group
Carbanions and Carbonyl Chemistry: Sugar Catabolism, Isopentenyl Diphosphate Synthesis
and the Citric Acid Cycle
Investigating the Properties of Addition and Condensation Polymers: Understanding
more about Free Radicals, Esters and Amides
The Industrial Road Toward Increasing Efficiency in the Synthesis of Hexamethylene
Diamine with Stopovers at Kinetic Versus Thermodynamic Control of Chemical Reactions,
Nucleophilic Substitution, and with a Side Trip to Laboratory Reducing Agents
Much can be learned about organic chemistry from the study of natural rubber and
other elastomers
Synthesis Part One ( R. B. Woodward ) : Cholesterol
Synthesis Part two ( Elias J. Corey ) : Prostaglandin