Pushing electrons a guide for students of organic chemistry - Weeks, Daniel P.; Winter, Arthur 1981- (Belmont, CA Brooks/Cole, 2014)
Machine generated contents note: 1. Lewis Structures -- Molecules and Functional Groups -- Saturated Groups -- Unsaturated Groups -- Constitutional Isomers -- Exceptions to the Octet Rule -- Larger Molecules -- Formal Charge -- Ions -- Cations -- A Digression -- Anions -- Free Radicals -- Righting the Mechanistic Wrongs -- 2. Resonance Structures -- Simple Ions -- Cations -- Anions -- Free Radicals -- Benzene and Benzenoid Aromatic Compounds -- More Complicated Ions -- Molecules Having Resonance Structures with Charge Separation -- 3. Mechanisms -- Sigma Bond Breaking -- Sigma Bond Making -- Simultaneous Bond Making and Breaking -- Sigma Bond Making and Breaking -- Homolytic Sigma Bond Making and Breaking -- Sigma Bond Making and Pi Bond Breaking -- Pi Bond Making and Sigma Bond Breaking -- Homolytic Sigma Bond Making and Pi Bond Breaking -- Complex Mechanisms -- Rearrangements -- Ring Closures -- 4. On Solving Mechanism Problems -- Weeks's List of Eight Central Mechanisms for First-Year Organic Chemistry -- Theme I The Intercepted Intermediate -- Theme II Rearrangement -- Theme III An Unexpected Product -- Theme IV Stereochemistry -- 5. Some Reactions from Biochemistry -- Bioorganic Reactions -- Enzymes -- Coenzymes -- 6. Valence Electrons (redux) -- Vinyl Polymers
Previous edition: London: Saunders College, 1998.
Keywords: Physical organic chemistry -- Problems, exercises, etc; Electrons -- Problems, exercises, etc