Book Name: A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry (Sixth Edition)
Author/s: Peter Sykes M.Sc., PhD., F.R.S.C., C.Chm. Fellow and Vice-Master, Christ’s College, Cambridge.
The list of topics covered in this book is given below:
- Structure, reactivity and mechanism
- Energetics, kinetics, and the investigation of the mechanism
- The strengths of the acids and bases
- Nucleophilic substitution at a saturated carbon atom
- Carbocations, electron deficient nitrogen and oxygen atoms and their reactions
- Electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution in aromatic systems
- Electrophilic and nucleophilic addition to C=C
- Nucleophilic addition to C=O
- Elimination Reactions
- Carbanions and their reactions
- Radical and their reactions
- Symmetry controlled reactions
- Linear free energy relationships