Reactive Intermediates in Organic Chemistry: Structure, Mechanism, and Reactions (Paperback)

Preface

INTRODUCTION
Reaction Mechanism and Reaction Arrows
Properties and Characteristics of a Reaction
Summary

CARBOCATIONS
Introduction
History
Sturctures and Geometry of Carbocations
Generation of Carbocation
Carbocation Stability
Detection of Carbocations
Fate of Carbocations
Nonclassical Carbocations
Radical Cations
Summary

CARBANIONS
Structure and Geometry of Carbanions
Generation of Carbanions
Stability of Carbanions
Reactions of Carbanions
Enolate Reactions with Carbonyl Groups
Rearrangements of Carbanions
Chiral Carbanions
Carbanions and Tautomerism
Summary

RADICALS
Introduction
Detection and Characterization of Radicals
Structure and Bonding of Radicals
Generation of Free Radicals
Stability of Radicals
Reactions of Free Radicals
Stereochemistry of Radical Reactions
Biradicals
Summary

CARBENES
Structure and Geometry of Carbenes
Generation of Carbenes
Reactions of Carbenes
Carbenes and Carbene Ligands in Organometallic Chemistry
Summary

NITRENES
Introduction
Structure and Reactivity
Generation of Nitrenes
Reactions of Nitrenes
Summary

MISCELLANEOUS INTERMEDIATES
Arynes
Ketenes and Cumulenes
ortho-Quinone Methides
Zwitterions and Dipoles
Antiaromatic Systems
Tetrahedral Intermediates
Summary

Index