The Organic Chemistry Fundamentals with Illustrated Applications

Abstract

The Organic Chemistry Fundamentals with Illustrated Applications is a new book intended for undergraduate students enrolled in the first cycle of university, college and institution and constitutes an interesting support for chemistry teachers. The book is subdivided to four parts comprising the essential four organic chemistry chapters such as; Nomenclature, Stereochemistry, Electronic Effects, and Reaction Mechanisms, taught and learnt in the first cycle of university, college and institution. Each chapter is followed by a series of exercises illustrating and explaining with more details and examples about the sections given and treated. The answers are given at the last part of each chapter. In this book, the student will learn, in a first chapter, a certain number of essential rules and bases adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) through multiple exercises to practice systematic and official nomenclature. These rules will allow him to name molecules in organic chemistry whether simple, multiple or even mixed with more than one function. In a second chapter, he will become familiar with the representations of molecules in 3D space and the different spatial arrangements known in chemistry in general. The notion of conformations treating simple molecules such as butane or cyclic molecules such as cyclohexane are well studied and their possible stability is largely detailed. On the other hand, the different types of configurations as well as the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) sequential rules explaining them are also addressed to enable him to properly determine the geometric configurations E and Z or absolute configurations R and S and finally, the great notion of chirality and all that unfolds and derives from it such as; enantiomerism, diastereoisomerism and Fischer projection of optically active molecules are illustrated by explanatory diagrams. A third chapter is devoted to the study of the different electronic effects, namely the inductive electronic effects and the mesomeric electronic effects as well as their different applications in the explanation of different chemical properties such as the acidity and basicity of organic compounds and also the study of the stability of the reaction intermediates that enter into the reaction mechanisms. Good demonstration exercises are given, well explained and discussed in details. The fourth chapter encompasses the application of all the concepts learned in the three precedent chapters of applications cited above and is intended for the study of large classes of basic reactions known in organic chemistry such as: substitution, elimination and addition. These reactions will allow students to acquire the basic concepts necessary for understanding the reaction mechanisms of organic chemistry reactions.