Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Aliphatic Nucleophilic Substitution / Jade D Nelson -- Addition to Carbon-Heteroatom Multiple Bonds / Rajappa Vaidyanathan, Carrie Brockway Wager -- Addition to Carbon-Carbon Multiple Bonds / John A Ragan -- Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution / Stephane Caron, Arun Ghosh -- Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution / Stephane Caron -- Selected Metal-Mediated Cross-Coupling Reactions / Sťphane Caron, Arun Ghosh, Sally Gut Ruggeri, Nathan D Ide, Jade D Nelson, John A Ragan -- Rearrangements / David H B Ripin -- Eliminations / Sally Gut Ruggeri -- Reductions / Sally Gut Ruggeri, Stephane Caron, Pascal Dub̌, Nathan D Ide, Kristin E Price, John A Ragan, Shu Yu -- Oxidations / David H Brown Ripin -- Selected Free Radical Reactions / Nathan D Ide -- Synthesis of 'Nucleophilic' Organometallic Reagents / David H Brown Ripin -- Synthesis of Common Aromatic Heterocycles / Stephane Caron -- Access to Chirality / Robert W Dugger -- Synthetic Route Development of Selected Contemporary Pharmaceutical Drugs / Stephane Caron -- Green Chemistry / Juan C Colberg -- Naming Carbocycles and Heterocycles / Heather N Frost, David H Brown Ripin -- pKa / David H Brown Ripin -- General Solvent Properties / Stephane Caron -- Practical Chemistry Concepts: Tips for the Practicing Chemist or Things they Don't Teach you in School / Sally Gut Ruggeri -- Functional Group Interconversion Index.

A must-have desktop reference and textbook for every student and professional working in organic chemistry or related fields, "Practical Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Proven Reactions from the Chemical Literature" provides the user with practical knowledge to assist in the planning and execution of synthetic reactions in the laboratory. Organized classically by reaction type, the work selects the most reliable and useful reactions, and provides the information necessary for a chemist to strategically plan a synthesis, as well as repeat the procedures in the laboratory. The text provides information on the basics of the reaction, the synthetic procedure(s), mechanism, and scope of the reaction.