"During the first half of this century most syntheses were developed by selecting an appropriate starting material, af…"

"The construction of a synthetic tree by working backward from the target molecule (TM) is called retrosynthetic analy…"

"Heterolytic retrosynthetic disconnection of a carbon-carbon bond in a molecule breaks the TM into an acceptor synthon…"

"Constitutional isomerism is not limited to alkanes—it occurs widely throughout organic chemistry. Constitutional isom…"

"In earlier times, when relatively few pure organic chemicals were known, new compounds were named at the whim of thei…"

"In contrast with enantiomers, diastereomers, because they are not mirror images of each other, are molecules with dif…"

"Metals, particularly lithium and magnesium, act on haloalkanes to generate new compounds, called organometallic reage…"

"Note carefully the difference between enantiomers and diastereomers: enantiomers have opposite configurations at all …"

"Molecules that are not identical to their mirror images are kinds of stereoisomers called enantiomers (Greek enantio,…"

"If we were to isolate each enantiomer in pure form, we would find that we could not distinguish between them on the b…"