MS Chauhan Organic Chemistry is a must-have for JEE preparation!

MS Chauhan Organic Chemistry is the best book for JEE preparation as it does not have any irrelevant topics. Thus, students can concentrate on just what they need to read, understand and know to prepare for IIT JEE and other engineering entrance exams. Thus, students can save time by devoting maximum hours to this book.

One of the world's best known books for Organic Chemistry, this book has been adapted for IIT JEE preparation and other engineering entrance exams. It has been reorganized to help JEE aspirants. Clear-cut explanation of theories and practice problems, specific to IIT JEE, at the end of each chapter are some of the best qualities of the MS Chouhan book. Concepts related to the syllabus have been delved in detail and irrelevant topics have been removed from the book. To make it easy to learn concepts, key concepts have been summarised in tabular format.

Topics covered in the book are: 

• Carbon Compounds and Chemical Bonds

• Representative Carbon Compounds: Functional Groups and Intermolecular Forces

• An Introduction to Organic Reactions: Acids and Bases

• Alkanes: Nomenclature, Conformational Analysis, and an Introduction to Synthesis

• Stereochemistry: Chiral Molecules

• Ionic Reactions-Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides

• Alkenes and Alkynes I: Properties and Synthesis. Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides

• Alkenes and Alkynes II: Addition Reactions

• Radical Reactions

• Alcohols and Ethers

• Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds. Oxidation-Reduction and Organometallic Compounds

• Conjugated Unsaturated Systems

• Aromatic Compounds

• Reactions of Aromatic Compounds

• Aldehydes and Ketones I. Nucleophilic Addition to the Carbonyl Group

• Aldehydes and Ketones II. Aldol Reactions

• Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives. Nucleophilic Addition - Elimination at the Acyl Carbon

• Amines

• Phenols and Aryl Halides: Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution

• Carbohydrates

• Amino Acids and Proteins

• Carbene and Carbenoids

• Reaction of Nitrene and Electron Deficient Oxygen

The topics best covered by Organic Chemistry by MS Chauhan are Carbon Bonds; Alkanes, Alkenes and Alynes; and Aromatic Compounds and their Reactions. MS Chauhan Organic Chemistry book covers full and updated JEE syllabus. The best qualities of MS Organic Chemistry books are that they offer visualization of structure, and step-wise explanation of the mechanism or organic reactions.

They also cover full and update JEE syllabus.

Two topics for which you might need books other MS Chouhan Organic Chemistry to prepare well are detection of elements, and detection of functional groups.

Other Organic Chemistry books you may want to buy are: 

• O.P. Tandon

• Paula Bruice Yurkanis

• Morrison & Boyd

• Solomons

• L. Finar

• Bahl & Bahl

• Peter Sykes

• J.D. March

• Arihant Prakashan