Providing comprehensive coverage, Physical Organic Chemistry deals with reaction mechanisms and with the experimental techniques and logical connections used in the establishment of a consistent theory of organic chemistry.

Extensively revised and updated, this second edition covers the basics of the subject and the mechanisms for a wide range of chemical reactions. The text emphasises the frontier orbital theory and the use of the Hückel molecular orbitals to account for chemical reactivity. This is fully supported by references to the necessary experimental evidence, extensive data and new research methods currently in use.