(BQ) Part 1 book "Advanced organic chemistry (Part A: Structure and mechanisms)" has contents: Chemical bonding and molecular structure; stereochemistry, conformation, and stereoselectivity; structural effects on stability and reactivity; nucleophilic substitution; polar addition and elimination reactions. | Advanced Organic Chemistry FIFTH EDITION Part A: Structure and Mechanisms Advanced Organic Chemistry PART A: Structure and Mechanisms PART B: Reactions and Synthesis Advanced Organic FIFTH EDITION Chemistry Part A: Structure and Mechanisms FRANCIS A. CAREY and RICHARD J. SUNDBERG University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Francis A. Carey Department of Chemistry University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 Richard J. Sundberg Department of Chemistry University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 Library of Congress Control Number: 2006939782 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-44897-8 (hard cover) ISBN-13: 978-0-387-68346-1 (soft cover) e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-44899-3 Printed on acid-free paper. ©2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now know or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Preface This Fifth Edition marks the beginning of the fourth decade that Advanced Organic Chemistry has been available. As with the previous editions, the goal of this text is to allow students to build on the foundation of introductory organic chemistry and attain a level of knowledge and understanding that will permit them to comprehend much of the material that appears in the contemporary chemical literature. There have been major developments in organic chemistry in recent years,