Part 1: electronic structure and bonding - acids and bases; an introduction to organic compounds - nomenclature, physical properties and respresentation of structure. Part 2: reactions of alkenes - thermodynamics and kinetics; the arrangement of atoms in space - the stereochemistry of addition reactions; reactions of alkynes - introduction to multistep synthesis; electron delocalization, resonance and aromaticity; reactions of dienes; reactions of alkanes, radicals. Part 3: reactions at an sp3 hybridized carbon I - substitution reactions of alkyl halides; reactions at an sp3 hybridized carbon II - elimination reactions of alkyl halides, competition between substitution and elimination; reactions at an sp3 hybridized carbon II -substitution and elimination reactions of compounds with leaving groups other than halogen, organometallic compounds. Part 4: mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy and ultraviolet/visible spectroscopy. Part 5: reactions of benzene and substituted benzenes. Part 6: carbonyl compounds I - reactions of carboxylic acids and their derivatives with oxygen and nitrogen nucleophiles; carbonyl compounds II - reactions of carbonyl compounds with carbon and hydrogen nucleophiles - reactions of aldehydes and ketones with oxygen and nitrogen nucleophiles, reactions of alpha-, beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds; oxidation-reduction reactions; carbonyl compounds III - reactions at the alpha-carbon. Part 7: carbohydrates; amino acids, peptides and proteins; catalysis; the organic mechanisms of the coenzymes; lipids; nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids. Part 8: synthetic polymers; heterocyclic compounds; pericyclic reactions; more about multistep organic synthesis; the organic chemistry of drugs - discovery and design. Part 9 Appendices: physical properties of organic compounds; pKa values; derivations of rate laws; summary of methods used to synthesize a particular functional group; spectroscopy tables; the glycolytic cycle and the Krebs cycle; answers to selected problems.