Includes bibliographical references (pages 1569-1604) and indexes.

Localized chemical bonding -- Delocalized chemical bonding -- Bonding weaker than covalent -- Stereochemistry and conformation -- Carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, and nitrenes -- Mechanisms and methods of determining them -- Irradiation processes in organic chemistry -- Acids and bases -- Effects of structure and medium on reactivity -- Aliphatic substitution, nucleophilic and organometallic -- Aromatic substitution, electrophilic -- Aliphatic, alkenyl, and alkynyl substitution, electrophilic and organometallic -- Aromatic substitution, nucleophilic and organometallic -- Substitution reactions, radical -- Addition to carbon-carbon multiple bonds -- Addition to carbon-hetero multiple bonds -- Eliminations -- Rearrangements -- Oxidations and reductions -- Appendix A. The literature of organic chemistry -- Appendix B. Classification of reactions by type of compounds synthesized.