Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Organic Chemistry

Neil E. Shore is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, USA. Born in New Jersey in 1948, he was educated in public schools in the Bronx, New York, and Ridgefield, New Jersey. He completed a BA with honors in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. Moving back to New York, he worked with the late Professor Nicholas J. Turro at Columbia University, studying photochemical and photophysical processes of organic compounds for his PhD thesis. He first met co-author Peter Vollhardt in the 1970s when they both were doing postdoctoral work in Professor Robert Bergman's laboratory at Cal Tech. Since joining the UC-Davis faculty in 1976, Schore has taught organic chemistry to more than 15,000 nonchemistry majors, winning seven teaching awards, publishing over 100 papers in various areas related to organic chemistry, and refereeing several hundred local youth soccer games.

Preface: A User's Guide to Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function
1. Structure and Bonding in Organic Molecules
2. Structure and Reactivity
3. Reactions of Alkanes
4. Cycloalkanes
5. Stereoisomers
6. Properties and Reactions of Haloalkanes
7. Further Reactions of Haloalkanes
8. Hydroxy Functional Group: Alcohols: Properties, Preparation, and Strategy of Synthesis
9. Further Reactions of Alcohols and the Chemistry of Ethers
10. Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Deduce Structure
11. Alkenes: Infrared Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
12. Reactions of Alkenes
13. Alkynes
14. Delocalized Pi Systems
15. Benzene and Aromaticity
16. Electrophilic Attack on Derivatives of Benzene
17. Aldehydes and Ketones
18. Enols, Enolates and the Aldol Condensation
19. Carboxylic Acids
20. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
21. Amines and Their Derivatives
22. Chemistry of Benzene Substituents
23. Ester Enolates and the Claisen Condensation
24. Carbohydrates: Polyfunctional Compounds in Nature
25. Heterocycles: Heteroatoms in Cyclic Organic Compounds
26. Amino Acids, Peptides, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids: Nitrogen-Containing