Organic chemistry / John McMurry.
By: McMurry, John
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BookPublisher: Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1996Edition: 4th ed.Description: xxxi, 1243 p. + (various pagings) : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0534238327.Subject(s): Chemistry, Organic| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 547 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00126790 |
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This revision of the best-selling organic chemistry textbook today has been fully updated and revised to offer more applications, a completely new chapter, and dozens of new problems and examples. McMurryUs text is currently in use at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada and is an international bestseller from the United Kingdom to the Pacific Rim. In this edition, McMurry continues to do what he does best, focus on the important material of the course and explain it in a concise, clear way.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Structure and bonding -- Bonding and molecular properties -- The nature of organic compounds: Alkanes and cycloalkanes -- Stereochemistry of alkanes and cycloalkanes -- An overview of organic reactions -- Alkenes: Structure and reactivity -- Alkenes: Reactions and synthesis -- Alkynes -- Stereochemistry -- Alkyl halides -- Reactions of alkyl halides: Nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations -- Structure determination: Mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy -- Structure determination: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Conjugated dienes and ultraviolet spectroscopy -- Benzene and aromaticity -- Chemistryof benzene: Electrophilic aromatic substitution -- Organic reactions -- Alcohols and thiols -- Ethers, epoxides and sulfides -- Chemistry of carbonyl compounds: an overview -- Aldehydes and ketones: Nucleophilic addition reactions -- Carboxylic acids -- Carboxylic acid derivatives and nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions -- Carbonyl alpha-substitution reactions -- Carbonyl condensation reactions -- Aliphatic amines -- Arylamines and phenols -- Biomolecules: carbohydrates -- Biomolecules: Amino acids, peptides and proteins -- Biomolecules: Lipids -- Biomolecules: Heterocycles and nucleic acids -- The organic chemistry of metabolic pathways -- Orbitals and organic chemistry: pericyclic reactions.