Advanced organic chemistry

The primary guiding and unifying principle of the book is the structural theory in its broadest sense. This one theory underlies the whole of organic chemistry; its different aspects are discussed in the various chapters. Chapters are: Fundamental concepts; Addition compounds; Concepts of Acids and Bases; Structural isomerism; Stereoisomerism; The configurations of carbon compounds; the stereochemistry of carbon; the configuration and the stereochemistry of elements other than carbon, strain theory and steric hindrance, the theory of resonance, electrostatic effects in organic chemistry, molecular rearrangements: the 1,2-shifts; molecular rearrangements: further types; tautomerism; and Free radicals.