Your plain-English guide to understanding chemical reactions and tackling tests with ease.

Includes index.

Brushing up on important organic chemistry I concepts. Organic chemistry II : here we go again! ; Remembering how we do it : mechanisms ; Alcohols and ethers : not just for drinking and sleeping ; Conjugated unsaturated systems ; "Seeing" molecules : spectroscopy revisited -- Discovering aromatic (and not so aromatic) compounds. Introducing aromatics ; Aromatic substitution part I L attack of the electrophiles ; Aromatic substitution part II : attack of the nucleophiles and other reactions -- Carbonyls : good alcohols gone bad. Comprehending carbonyls ; Aldehydes and ketones ; Enols and enolates ; Carboxylic acids and their derivatives -- Advanced topics (every student's nightmare). Amines and friends ; Metals muscling in : organometallics ; More reactions of carbonyl compounds ; Living large : biomolecules -- Pulling it all together. Overview of synthesis strategies ; Roadmaps and predicting products -- The part of tens. Ten surefire ways to fail organic chemistry II ; More than ten ways to increase your score on an organic chemistry exam-- Appendix. Named reactions.