Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition

Title: Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition
Author: Bhupinder Mehta, Manju Mehta
ISBN: 8120351266 / 9788120351264
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 1204
Publisher: PHI Learning
Year: 2015
Availability: Out of Stock

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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 oxidationreduction 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.

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Preface
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 : Organic Molecules : Structures, Bonding and Properties
Chapter 2 : IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds
Chapter 3 : Stereochemistry
Chapter 4 : Fundamentals of Organic Reactions

Explore More (Set I)
Chapter 5 :
Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
Chapter 6 : Alkenes
Chapter 7 : Alkadienes
Chapter 8 : Alkynes
Chapter 9 : Concepts of Aromaticity, Benzene and Its Derivatives
Chapter 10 : Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution Reactions - Mechanism, Orientation and Reactivity

Explore More (Set II)
Chapter 11 :
Haloalkanes
Chapter 12 : Haloarenes
Chapter 13 : Monohydric Alcohols (Alkanols)
Chapter 14 : Ethers, Epoxides, Thiols and Thioethers
Chapter 15 : Polyhydric Alcohols (Diols and Triols)
Chapter 16 : Phenols

Explore More (Set III)
Chapter 17 :
Aliphatic Carbonyl Compounds (Alkanals and Alkanones)
Chapter 18 : Aromatic Aldehydes and Ketones
Chapter 19 : Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives
Chapter 20 : Bifunctional Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives
Chapter 21 : Aromatic Carboxylic and Sulfonic Acids

Mini Essay I
Chapter 22 :
Aliphatic, Nitrogen Containing Compounds (Amines, Nitro, Nitriles, Isonitriles, Isocyanates and Thiocyanates)
Chapter 23 : Aromatic Nitrogen Containing Compounds (Nitro, Amines and Diazonium Salts)
Chapter 24 : Polynuclear Hydrocarbons

Explore More (Set IV)
Chapter 25 :
Review - Part I : Organometallic Compounds, Part II : Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
Chapter 26 : Heterocyclic Compounds
Chapter 27 : Carbohydrates
Chapter 28 : Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins

Mini Essay II
Chapter 29 :
Drugs and Pesticides

Mini Essay III
Chapter 30 :
Dyes
Chapter 31 : Synthetic Polymers
Chapter 32 : Spectroscopy and Structure

Appendix
Glossary
Index