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