Advanced Organic Chemistry

A best-selling mechanistic organic chemistry text in Germany, this text's translation into English fills a long-existing need for a modern, thorough and accessible treatment of reaction mechanisms for students of organic chemistry at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level. Knowledge of reaction mechanisms is essential to all applied areas of organic chemistry; this text fulfills that need by presenting the right material at the right level.

Radical Substitution Reactions at the Saturated C Atom
Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions at the Saturated C Atom
Additions to the Olefinic C=C Double Bond
Eliminations
Substitution Reactions on Aromatic Compounds
Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (Except Through Enolates) on the Carboxyl Carbon
Additions of Heteroatom Nucleophiles to Heterocumulenes
Additions of Heteroatom Nucleophiles to Carbonyl Compounds and Their Secondary Reactions
Addition of H Nucleophiles and Metal Organyls to Carbonyl Compounds
Reaction of Ylides with Saturated or Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds
Chemistry of the Alkaline Earth Metal Enolates
Rearrangements
Thermal Cycloadditions
Transition Metal-Mediated Alkenylations, Arylations and Alkynylations
Oxidations and Reductions