This is a useful introductory chemistry resouce - notes are provided on the properties of several functional groups, including alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amines and amino acids.
These notes form part of the online Virtual Chemistry course from the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. They are based on an extract from the book "Chemistry, Matter and the Universe" by Richard E. Dickerson and Irving Geis, used with permission. url=http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/OrgCompounds/HTML/page01.htm&handle=2005721-1230154
