Table of Contents ●●●●●●●●●●●0●0●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●0●●●●●●●●●●●●0e● About This Book Conventions Used in This Book. What You're Not to Read... 2 Foolish Assumptions.. 2 How This Book Is Organized. 3 Part I:Brushing Up on Important Organic Chemistry I Concepts......3 Part Il:Discovering Aromatic (And Not So Aromatic) Compounds. 3 Part II Carbonyls:Good Alcohols Gone Bad Part IV:Advanced Topics (Every Student's Nightmare) Part Vl Pulling It All Together.… Tens.. ere to Go n here 5 Part 1:Brushing Up on Important Organic Chemistry I Concepts...7 Chapter 1:Organic Chemistry ll:Here We Go Again! 9 Recapping Organic Chemistry I 10 Intermolecular forces. .10 Functional groups. 11 Reactions.. …11 Spectroscopy.. Isomerism and optical activity. Looking Ahead to Organic Chemistry lI .14 Chapter 2:Remembering How We Do It:Mechanisms 17 Duck-Here Come the Arrows. 17 Coming Around to Curved Arrows... .19 Getting Ready for Some Basic Moves .20 Bond lone pair........ 21 Bond->bond.... .2 Lone pair→bond. Combining the Basic Moves. Intermediates eys to st stitution and eli nation mechanisms Revisiting Free-Ra lical Mechanisms.. Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................. 1 About This Book ..............................................................................................1 Conventions Used in This Book .....................................................................2 What You’re Not to Read ................................................................................2 Foolish Assumptions .......................................................................................2 How This Book Is Organized ..........................................................................3 Part I: Brushing Up on Important Organic Chemistry I Concepts ...... 3 Part II: Discovering Aromatic (And Not So Aromatic) Compounds .........................................................................................3 Part III: Carbonyls: Good Alcohols Gone Bad .....................................3 Part IV: Advanced Topics (Every Student’s Nightmare)...................4 Part V: Pulling It All Together ...............................................................4 Part VI: The Part of Tens .......................................................................4 Icons Used in This Book .................................................................................4 Where to Go from Here ...................................................................................5 Part I: Brushing Up on Important Organic Chemistry I Concepts ........................................ 7 Chapter 1: Organic Chemistry II: Here We Go Again! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Recapping Organic Chemistry I ...................................................................10 Intermolecular forces ..........................................................................10 Functional groups ................................................................................11 Reactions ..............................................................................................11 Spectroscopy ........................................................................................11 Isomerism and optical activity ...........................................................12 Looking Ahead to Organic Chemistry II ......................................................14 Chapter 2: Remembering How We Do It: Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Duck — Here Come the Arrows ...................................................................17 Coming Around to Curved Arrows ..............................................................19 Getting Ready for Some Basic Moves .........................................................20 Bond → lone pair .................................................................................21 Bond → bond ........................................................................................21 Lone pair → bond ................................................................................22 Combining the Basic Moves .........................................................................22 Intermediates .......................................................................................24 Keys to substitution and elimination mechanisms .........................25 Revisiting Free-Radical Mechanisms ...........................................................27 02_178157-ftoc.indd xi 5/28/10 9:44 AM