Were you looking for the book with access to MasteringChemistry? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MasteringChemistry. Buy the book and access card package to save money on this resource. Acclaimed for its clarity and precision, Wades Organic Chemistry maintains scientific rigor while engaging students at all levels. Wade presents a logical, systematic approach to understanding the principles of organic reactivity and the mechanisms of organic reactions. This approach helps students develop the problem-solving strategies and the scientific intuition they will apply throughout the course and in their future scientific work. The Eighth Edition provides enhanced and proven features in every chapter, including new Chapter Goals, Essential Problem-Solving Skills and Hints that encourage both majors and non-majors to think critically and avoid taking short cuts to solve problems. Mechanism Boxes and Key Mechanism Boxes strengthen student understanding of Organic Chemistry as a whole while contemporary applications reinforce the relevance of this science to the real world. Wade provides greater coverage of complete mechanisms and more mechanistic questions than any other book on the market to help students predict reactions they have never seen before. 20 Key Mechanism Boxes are the fundamental mechanistic principles that recur throughout the course. They are the mechanisms that compose most of the longer, more complex mechanisms. Each Key Mechanism Box reinforces student understanding with steps and explanations that describe the reaction mechanism (how the reaction occurs), a specific example of the mechanism for reinforcement, and a concluding problem or question so students can assess their understanding. Over 150 Mechanism Boxes help students understand how reactions occur by focusing on the individual steps of each reaction. The Mechanism Boxes are shaded in blue so students can locate them easily as they thumb through the chapter. Over 1400 (mostly multi-part) problems provide immediate review and allow students to assess their understanding of what they have read in each section before moving on to the next. Problem-Solving Strategies help students break down the multitude of complex problems into simpler pieces. These strategies help students establish thoughtful methods for approaching complicated problems - like those that require proposing mechanisms and developing multi-step synthesis. Chapter 1: Introduction and Review , Chapter 2: Structure and Properties of Organic Molecule Chapter 3: Structure and Stereochemistry of Alkanes Chapter 4: The Study of Chemical Reactions Chapter 5: Stereochemistry Chapter 6: Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Chapter 7: Structure and Synthesis of Alkenes Chapter 8: Reactions of Alkenes Chapter 9: Alkynes Chapter 10: Structure and Synthesis of Alcohols Chapter 11: Reactions of Alcohols Chapter 12: Infrared Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Chapter 13: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Chapter 14: Ethers, Epoxides and Thioethers Chapter 15: Conjugated Systems, Orbital Symmetry, and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Chapter 16: Aromatic Compounds Chapter 17: Reactions of Aromatic Compounds Chapter 18: Ketones and Aldehydes Chapter 19: Amines Chapter 20: Carboxylic Acids Chapter 21: Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Chapter 22: Condensations and Alpha Substitutions of Carbonyl Compounds Chapter 23: Carbohydrates and Nucleic Aci Chapter 24: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins Chapter 25: Lipids