This book bridges the gap between sophomore and advanced / graduate level organic chemistry courses, providing students with a necessary background to begin research in either an industry or academic environment. Covers key concepts that include retrosynthesis, conformational analysis, and functional group transformations uses a concise and easy-to-read style, with many illustrated examples updates material, examples, and references from the first edition adds coverage of organocatalysts and organometallic reagents features end-of-chapter problems and references to primary research articles