1. From cellulose to starch to the principles of structure and stereochemistry
2. A survey of the experiments usually performed by chemists to understand the structures of organic molecules: mass spectrometers, infrared spectrometers and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers
3. From galactosemia to the properties of six-membered rings: an introduction to the mechanisms of chemical reactions
4. Understanding carbocations: from the production of high octane gasoline to the nature of acids and bases
5. Carbocations in living processes
6. Aromatic: a word that came to mean something other than odor in the chemical sciences
7. Fatty acid catabolism and the chemistry of the carbonyl group
8. Carbanions and carbonyl chemistry: sugar catabolism, isopentenyl diphosphate synthesis and the citric acid cycle
9. Investigating the properties of addition and condensation polymers: understanding more about free radicals, esters and amides
10. The industrial road toward increasing efficiency in the synthesis of hexamethylene diamine with stopovers at kinetic versus thermodynamic control of chemical reactions, nucleophilic substitution, and with a side trip to laboratory reducing agents
11. Much can be learned about organic chemistry from the study of natural rubber and other elastomers
