Reaction Mechanism in Organic Chemistry

Since the knowledge of Organic reaction mechanism is essential for understanding the course of Organic chemistry, a study of Organic reaction mechanism now forms an essential part of the Organic chemistry courses in all the Universities. This book is intended for students at the graduate and postgraduate level. Due to wide coverage and simple style, students at all levels can get benefits from this book The book covers the conventional and the most important topics on Organic reaction mechanism. The book consists of 11 chapters. All topics have been selected with great care keeping in mind the needs of the students. Certain topics which are generally discussed in introductory books are excluded. The chapters are devoted to a detailed discussion of aliphatic nucleophilic substitution, aliphatic electrophilic substitution, aromatic electrophilic substitution, aromatic nucleophilic substitution, free radical reactions, addition to carbon-carbon multiple bonds, reactions of carbon-oxygen double bond, elimination reactions, cyclic aromatic compounds, methods of oxidation and methods of reduction reactions. Each chapter concludes with a set of questions. I deeply indebted to Former Vice-Chancellor Dr.V.Gnanaprakasam, Prof. K.Ambalavanan and Prof. S.Veezhinathan whose constant encouragement and guidance have been a principle source of inspiration for this work. I wish to express grateful acknowledgement to my father M.K.Swaminathan(late). I appreciate the interest and enthusiasm shown by my son S.Boovaragan and my daughter S.Buffiya during the long period of preparation of manuscript. Despite of best efforts, some errors might have crept in, for which I apologize. Valuable suggestions from the readers for the improvement of the book will be most welcome.