Basic Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciences

• Main Author: Vančik, Hrvoj (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Organic chemistry.; Life sciences.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Life Sciences, general.; Organic Chemistry.

This work provides an overview of the basics of organic chemistry for non-chemists. As such, this book should be very useful for university students of biology, molecular biology, ecology, medicine, agriculture, forestry, and other specialties where the knowledge of organic chemistry plays the impor...

Table of Contents:

• Alkanes, Composition, Constitution and Configuration
• Functional Groups
• Electronic Structure of Organic Molecules
• Alkenes and Alkynes
• Substitutions on Saturated Carbon Atom
• Nucleophilic Additions
• Stereochemistry, Symmetry and Molecular Chirality
• Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids
• Electrophilic Substitutions
• Cycloadditions
• Organic Natural Products.