Organic Chemistry: Functional Groups

(1999) An encyclopedic and systematic collection of useful synthetic methodology, including tens of thousands of reactions and synthetic transformations.

There is a 3rd edition online, published in 2018. You can browse or search the chapters; if there's a chapter you want, we can try to request via interlibrary loan.

(2005) Organized by the functional group formed, an encyclopedia reference of 144 specialist reviews covering organic synthesis in terms of the introduction and interconversion of all known functional groups. Covers the literature from 1995-2003.

Multi-volume reference work covering all aspects of functional group chemistry, including "physical organic chemistry, analytical chemistry and techniques, reaction mechanisms, chapters on synthetic pathways, reactions and strategies as well as applications." This is an ongoing series and we do not have the later volumes. You can browse or search them. Some may be available online; otherwise we should be able to get you a chapter via interlibrary loan.

Handbook/guide for Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups, from 1964-1991.

A practical handbook for chemists performing bond forming reactions, this book features useful information on the synthesis of common functional groups in organic chemistry.

Guidebook on functional groups for pharmacy students in medicinal chemistry courses. Covers nomenclature, physical properties, chemical properties, and metabolism. Skills: drawing chemical structures and predicting the solubility, instabilities, and metabolism of each organic functional group.

Textbook on chemistry of functional groups with an emphasis on patterns of reactivity, the consequences of the relative electronegativity of the atoms that constitute functional groups, the role of lone pairs and the stereochemistry of reactions at a particular group. With problem sets.