Instant Notes in Organic Chemistry Second Edition condenses the essentials of organic chemistry into a manageable text. It concentrates solely on the basics without going into exhaustive detail or repetitive examples, with the key notes at the start of each topic focusing the mind on the essentials. The first six sections cover structure, bonding, functional groups, stereochemistry, and basic reaction and mechanism theory. The rest of the book looks at the reactions and mechanisms of the common functional groups important in chemistry and biochemistry, with an additional section on spectroscopy and analysis.