Organic Chemistry Study Guide and Solutions Manual
Fifth Edition
Marc Loudon
804 pages
Publisher:
Roberts & Company, USA
This study guide accompanies the text Organic Chemistry.
Loudon's Organic Chemistry is known for its clear writing, high standard of accuracy, and creative problems. The fifth edition contains 1,668 problems—many of them new and taken directly from the scientific literature. This edition, more than ever before, encourages students to analyse and synthesize concepts.
1 Chemical bonding and chemical structure
2 Alkanes
3 Acids and bases. The curved-arrow notation
4 Introduction to alkenes: structure and reactivity
5 Addition reactions of alkenes
6 Principles of stereochemistry
7 Cyclic compounds: stereochemistry of reactions
8 Introduction to alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, thiols, and sulfides
9 The chemistry of alkyl halides
10 The chemistry of alcohols and thiols
11 The chemistry of ethers, epoxides, glycols, and sulfides
12 Introduction to spectroscopy. Infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry
13 Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
14 The chemistry of alkynes
15 Dienes, resonance, and aromaticity
16 The chemistry of benzene and its derivatives
17 Allylic and benzylic reactivity
18 The chemistry of aryl halides, vinylic halides,
and phenols. Transition-metal catalysis
19 The chemistry of aldehydes and ketones.
Carbonyl-addition reactions
20 The chemistry of carboxylic acids
21 The chemistry of carboxylic acid derivatives
22 The chemistry of enolate ions, enols,
and a,b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds
23 The chemistry of enolate ions, enols, and a,b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds
24 Carbohydrates
25 The chemistry of the aromatic heterocycles
26 Amino acids, peptides, and proteins
27 Pericyclic reactions
Appendices
Index
Marc Loudon received his BS (magna cum laude) in chemistry in 1964 from Louisiana State University and his PhD in organic chemistry in 1968 from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2000, Dr. Loudon was named 'Indiana Professor of the Year' by the Carnegie Foundation. In 2001, Dr. Loudon served as a member of the Chemistry Panel of BIO2010, which was commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences to make national recommendations for the biology curriculum.
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