Special Features
‘Explain’ the matter rather than presenting the facts in an encyclopaedic manner.
Used reaction mechanisms throughout the text.
The chapter on Stereo-chemistry has been thoroughly rewritten.
Re-written the sections on Stereo-chemistry of cyclic compounds, correlation of different conformers of substituted cyclohexanes.
The E and Z designations, the R and S nomenclature of stereo-isomers, details of symmetry elements, etc. have been added and expanded.
Greatly expanded and rewritten ‘Principles of mass spectroscopy, UV, IR and NMR spectroscopy.
Included spectroscopic analysis of type of compounds discussed in each chapter throughout the book. These chapters have been rewritten.
New sections on Feiser-Woodward and Feiser-Kuhn rules in UV spectroscopy, additional explanations and conclusions of various electronic transitions have been included.
The chapter on biochemistry now includes structure and composition of the living cell.
The chapters dealing with aromatic chemistry and heterocyclic compounds have been greatly improved over the previous editions.
The chemistry of carbohydrates has been rewritten.
Conformational isomerism in monosaccharides, disacchaides and plysaccharides has been explained and conversions encountered in carbohydrate chemistry have been provided.
The chapter on proteins now includes principles of peptide bond formation and a discussion on primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structures of proteins.
Newer synthesis have been added in the sections on alkaloids, terpenoids, ureides, purines and pyrimidines, and synthesis and natural dyes.
Retained resonance structures rather than the more advanced, frontier molecular orbital diagrams.