# Organic Chemistry - A "Carbonyl Early" Approach

- By: Kirk McMichael
- Publisher: Washington State University
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Organic_Chemistry/Book%3A_Organic_Chemistry_-_A_Carbonyl_Early_Approach_(McMichael))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Organic_Chemistry/Book%3A_Organic_Chemistry_-_A_Carbonyl_Early_Approach_(McMichael)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/chem-81766/pdf

This is the textbook for a one semester organic chemistry "survey" course . You will be learning and applying the principles which govern the structure of organic compound and relating your understanding of structure to the reactions--the changes in structure--which happen when specific portions of organic compounds interact with other chemical substances. We will spend the first several weeks of the semester looking at a group of organic compounds which share a common structural element--the ca