Das erfolgreiche Arbeiten mit organischen Reaktionen erfordert Wissen über Reaktivität, Reaktionsmechanismen, Thermodynamik und weitere Grundlagen der physikalisch-organischen Chemie. Das Lehrbuch vermittelt dieses Wissen. Auch erhältlich: das Arbeitsbuch zum Lehrbuch.

Autorentext
Kendall Houk is Saul Winstein Professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He is an authority on theoretical and computational organic chemistry. Professor Houk has published nearly 1100 articles in refereed journals and is among the 100 most-cited chemists. Pierre Vogel is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the EPFL (Swiss Institute of Technology) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published three books and has co-authored more than 490 publications in fields such as physical organic chemistry, organic and organometallic synthesis, and catalysis.

Inhalt
Preface Equilibria and Thermochemistry Additivity Rules for Thermodynamic Parameters and Deviations The Rates of Chemical Reactions Molecular Orbital Theories Pericyclic Reactions Organic Photochemistry Catalytic Reactions Transition-metal-catalyzed C-C bond forming reactions