Includes index.

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Introduction 1. - -
Part 1: Brushing Up on Important Organic Chemistry I Concepts 5. - -
Chapter 1: Organic Chemistry II: Here We Go Again! 7. - -
Chapter 2: Remembering How We Do It: Mechanisms 15. - -
Chapter 3: Alcohols and Ethers: Not Just for Drinking and Sleeping 29. - -
Chapter 4: Conjugated Unsaturated Systems 49. - -
Chapter 5: “Seeing” Molecules: Spectroscopy Revisited 63. - -
Part 2: Discovering Aromatic (And Not So Aromatic) Compounds 75. - -
Chapter 6: Introducing Aromatics 77. - -
Chapter 7: Aromatic Substitution Part I: Attack of the Electrophiles 89. - -
Chapter 8: Aromatic Substitution Part II: Attack of the Nucleophiles and Other Reactions 107. - -
Part 3: Carbonyls: Good Alcohols Gone Bad 117. - -
Chapter 9: Comprehending Carbonyls 119. - -
Chapter 10: Aldehydes and Ketones 133. - -
Chapter 11: Enols and Enolates 155. - -
Chapter 12: Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives 179. - -
Part 4: Advanced Topics (Every Student’s Nightmare) 211. - -
Chapter 13: Amines and Friends 213. - -
Chapter 14: Metals Muscling In: Organometallics 239. - -
Chapter 15: More Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds 249. - -
Chapter 16: Living Large: Biomolecules 267. - -
Part 5: Pulling It All Together 293. - -
Chapter 17: Overview of Synthesis Strategies 295. - -
Chapter 18: Roadmaps and Predicting Products 309. - -
Part 6: The Part of Tens 319. - -
Chapter 19: Ten Surefire Ways to Fail Organic Chemistry II 321. - -
Chapter 20: More than Ten Ways to Increase Your Score on an Organic Chemistry Exam 325. - -
Chapter 21: Ten Simple Rules to Remember 331. - -
Part 7: Appendixes 337.

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