Characteristics of all chapters: · Survey of representative natural and unnatural compounds
· Pertinent Review
· Physical Organic Concepts
· Methods of Synthesis (Preparation)
· Reactions
· Representative Natural Products Syntheses where the Functional group plays an important part in the design
· Biological Implications
· Industrial Implications
· Health Implications
· Agricultural
· End-of-Chapter Questions:
· Physical Organic questions
· Suggest mechanism questions
· Show stereochemistry question
· Show products (justify stereo- and regio-chemsirty)
· “Synthesis” . . . . from simple how to go from A to B, to multi-step transformations