"A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Localized chemical bonding -- Delocalized chemical bonding -- Bonding weaker than covalent -- Stereochemistry -- Carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, and nitrenes -- Mechanisms and methods of determining them -- Photochemistry -- Acids and bases -- Effects of structure on reactivity -- Aliphatic nucleophilic substitution -- Aromatic electrophilic substitution -- Aliphatic electrophilic substitution -- Aromatic nucleophilic substitution -- Free-radical substitution -- Addition to carbon-carbon multiple bonds -- Addition to carbon-hetero multiple bonds -- Eliminations -- Rearrangements -- Oxidations and reductions -- The literature of organic chemistry -- Classification of reactions by type of cound synthesized.