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Chemistry
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March's Advanced Organic Chemistry - Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

Author: Michael B. Smith, Jerry March
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2007, 2384pp, 6th ed.

This book simply is "the bible" for advanced organic chemists. It serves well not only as a reference guide for the working chemist but also is a good book for students.
Table of contents
Bibliographical Note
Abbreviations
1Localized Chemical Bonding3
2Delocalized Chemical Bonding32
3Bonding Weaker than Covalent98
4Stereochemistry125
5Carbocations, Carbanions, Free Radicals, Carbenes, and Nitrenes218
6Mechanisms and Methods of Determining Them274
7Photochemistry306
8Acids and Bases327
9Effects of Structure on Reactivity363
10Aliphatic Nucleophilic Substitution389
11Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution675
12Aliphatic Electrophilic Substitution759
13Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution850
14Free-Radical Substitution894
15Addition to Carbon - Carbon Multiple Bonds970
16Addition to Carbon - Hetero Multiple Bonds1172
17Eliminations1299
18Rearrangements1377
19Oxidations and Reductions1506
App. AThe Literature of Organic Chemistry1605
App. BClassification of Reactions by Type of Compound Synthesized1642
Author Index1694
Subject Index1937