Arthur Winter is a graduate of Frostburg State University, where he received his BS in chemistry. Winter received his PhD at the University of Maryland in 2007, where his research involved studying extremely short-lived reactive intermediates using laser spectroscopy. He is currently a chemistry professor at Iowa State University.

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Organic Chemistry 5 Chapter 1: The Wonder ful World of Organic Chemistry 7 Chapter 2: Dissecting Atoms: Atomic Structure and Bonding 15 Chapter 3: Speaking with Pictures: Drawing Structures 35 Chapter 4: Covering the Bases (And the Acids) 59 Chapter 5: Reactivit y Centers: Functional Groups 69 Chapter 6: Seeing in 3-D: Stereochemistr y 85 Part II: Hydrocarbons 103 Chapter 7: What's in a Name? Alkane Nomenclature 105 Chapter 8: Drawing Alkanes 113 Chapter 9: Seeing Double: The Alkenes 129 Chapter 10: Reactions of Alkenes 145 Chapter 11: It Takes Alkynes: The Carbon-Carbon Triple Bond 159 Part III: Functional Groups 167 Chapter 12: Replacing and Removing: Substitution and Elimination Reactions 169 Chapter 13: Getting Drunk on Organic Molecules: The Alcohols 185 Chapter 14: Side-by-Side: Conjugated Alkenes and the Diels--Alder Reaction 193 Chapter 15: Lord of the Rings: Aromatic Compounds 203 Chapter 16: Bringing Out the Howitzers: Reactions of Aromatic Compounds 221 Part IV: Spectroscopy and Structure Determination 235 Chapter 17: A Smashing Time: Mass Spectrometry 237 Chapter 18: Seeing Good Vibrations: IR Spectroscopy 255 Chapter 19: NMR Spectroscopy: Hold onto Your Hats, You're Going Nuclear! 267 Chapter 20: Following the Clues: Solving Problems in NMR 289 Part V: The Part of Tens 309 Chapter 21: Ten (Or So) Great Organic Chemists 311 Chapter 22: Ten Cool Organic Discoveries 317 Chapter 23: Ten Cool Organic Molecules 325 Part VI: Appendixes 331 Appendix A: Working Multistep Synthesis Problems 333 Appendix B: Working Reaction Mechanisms 341 Appendix C: Glossary 347 Index 359