Dr William Tucker - his passion for chemistry was inspired by his high school teacher, Gary Osborn. He left Maine to pursue Chemistry at Middlebury College, and after graduating in 2010 he decided to pursue a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he worked in the laboratory of Dr Sandro Mecozzi, where he developed semifluorinated triphilic surfactants for hydrophobic drug delivery. After earning his PhD in 2015, he took a fellowship at Boston University as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow. There he co-taught organic chemistry while working in the laboratory of Dr John Caradonna. In the Caradonna laboratory, he worked on developing a surface-immobilized iron-oxidation catalyst for the oxidation of C-H bonds using dioxygen from the air as the terminal oxidant. Throughout all of this work, his passion has always been for teaching and working with students both in and out of the classroom. He has been lucky for the past six years to work at Concord Academy, where his students have, through their questions, pushed him to think deeper and more critically about chemistry. Their curiosity inspires him, and their inquisitiveness inspired his writing.

Chapter 01 Introduction

Chapter 02 Electrons, bonding, and structure

Chapter 03 Alkanes, cycloalkanes, and nomenclature fundamentals

Chapter 04 Arrow pushing and solvent

Chapter 05 Radical reactions

Chapter 06 Stereochemistry

Chapter 07 Infrared spectroscopy

Chapter 08 Mass spectrometry

Chapter 09 Nuclear magnetic resonance

Chapter 10 Acids and bases

Chapter 11 Alkene structure and nomenclature

Chapter 12 Electrophilic addition to alkenes

Chapter 13 Reactions of alkynes

Chapter 14 Nucleophilic substitution and B-elimination reactions

Chapter 15 Alcohols

Chapter 16 Ethers and epoxides

Chapter 17 Organometallic chemistry: magnesium, lithium, copper, and carbenes

Chapter 18 Organometallic chemistry: palladium

Chapter 19 Aldehydes and ketones

Chapter 20 Carboxylic acids

Chapter 21 Carboxylic acid derivatives

Chapter 22 Enols, enolates, and enamines

Chapter 23 Amines

Chapter 24 Conjugated diene chemistry

Chapter 25 Aromaticity

Chapter 26 Aromatic substitution

Common organic functional groups and nomenclature

Index