Topics in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

Content: Localized chemical bonding -- Delocalized chemical bonding -- Bonding weaker than covalent -- Stereochemistry -- Carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, and nitrenes -- Mechanisms and methods of determining them -- Photochemistry -- Acids and bases -- Effects of structure on reactivity -- Aliphatic nucleophilic substitution -- Aromatic electrophilic substitution -- Aliphatic electrophilic substitution -- Aromatic nucleophilic substitution -- Free-radical substitution -- Addition to carbon-carbon multiple bonds -- Addition to carbon-hetero multiple bonds -- Eliminations -- Rearrangements -- Oxidations and reductions -- Appendix aA: The literature of organic chemistry -- Appendix B: Classification of reactions by type of compound synthesized