To the Student Introduction: The Nature of Organic Chemistry 1 A Survey of Organic Structures: Carbon Skeletons and Functional Groups 2 Molecular Bonding: Bond Angles, Bond Energies, and Bond Lengths 3 Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Hydrocarbons and Their Derivatives 4 Stereoisomerism and Chirality: Right- and Left-Handed Chemistry 5 Reactive Intermediates: Formation of Haloalkanes by Way of Free Radicals 6 The Interconversion of Alkyl Halides, Alcohols, and Ethers: Substitution Reactions 7 The Structure of Alkenes: Their Synthesis by Way of Elimination Reactions 8 Physical Methods of Chemical Structure Identification: Basic Mass and Infrared Spectroscopy 9 Photon and Carbon Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 10 Addition, Polymerization, and Biological Reactions of Alkenes 11 The Synthesis and Structure of Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Additions to the Carbonyl Group 12 Chemistry of the Alkynes: Introduction to the Logic of Synthesis 13 Electron Delocalization in Aliphatic Molecules 14 Benzene and the Concept of Aromaticity 15 Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution 16 Carboxylic Acids, Acid Halides, and Anhydrides 17 Esters, Amides, and Nitriles: An Overview of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Their Chemistry 18 Aldol Condensation Reactions: Enols and Enolates 19 Alkylation and Acylation of Enolates 20 Sugars, Nucleosides, and Nucleic Acids 21 Amines, Phosphines, and Sulfides: Basicity, Nucleophilicity, and Valence Shell Expansion 22 Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins: Natural and Synthetic Condensation Polymers 23 Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution: The Chemistry of Aryl Halides and Aryl Diazonium Ions 24 Phenols and Quinones 25 The Chemistry of Aromatic Heterocycles 26 Photochemically Induced Excited States, Carbenes, and Organotransition Metal Intermediates 27 Introduction to Chemical Literature: Books, Abstracts, and Journals