Organic Reaction Mechanism

Contents: 1. Introduction to organic reaction mechanism. 2. Determination of mechanisms. 3. How to write a mechanism. 4. Physical organic chemistry. 5. Reactive intermediates. 6. Acids and bases. 7. Conjugation and hyperconjugation. 8. Resonance. 9. Molecular isomerism. 10. Stereoisomer. 11. Optical activity. 12. Stereochemistry. 13. Tautomerism. 14. Free radical reactions of alkenes. 15. Substitution reactions. 15A. Organic photochemistry. 16. The Sn2 reaction-nucleophilic bimolecular substitution. 17. First order elimination : the E1 mechanism. 18. Second order elimination : the E2 mechanism. 19. Free radical halogenation. 20. Addition reactions of alkenes. 21. Stereoselectivity in addition reactions to double bonds. 22. Diels-alder cycloaddition. 23. Addition reactions involving other Onium intermediates. 24. Electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions. 25. Oxidations. 26. Pericyclic reactions. 27. Woodward-Hoffmann rules. 28. Sigmatropic rearrangements. 29. Steric effect. 30. Asymmetric synthesis. 31. Hydroboration. 32. Rearrangement reactions. 33. Computational chemistry.

"This short text includes various aspects of organic reaction mechanism. Every concept included in this text has been illustrated by considering reaction mechanism. This also includes the various methods for studying reaction mechanism experimentally have been included." (jacket)