Chapter 1 General Principles: The Structure of Functional Groups; Reagents and Reactions; Learning Organic Functional Group Chemistry. Chapter 2 Chemistry of the σ-Bond: Alkanes; Alkyl Halides; Alcohols; Epoxides and Ethers; Organosulfur Compounds; Aliphatic Amines. Chapter 3 Chemistry of the π-Bond: Alkenes; Alkynes; Carbonyl Compounds; Carboxylic Acids and their Relatives; Enolate and Related Carbanion Chemistry; Nitriles, Imines and Nitro Compounds. Chapter 4 Chemistry of Aromatic Compounds: Aromatic Substitution; Aromatic Functional Groups; Heteroaromatic Compounds. Answers to Problems; Subject Index.
Professor Abel is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter. Professor Hanson is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sussex.
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