Fundamental concepts relating to carbon compounds with emphasis on structural theory and the nature of chemical bonding, stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms, and spectroscopic, physical, and chemical properties of the principal classes of carbon compounds. Index of Topics: -1:58 Energetics of Methane Substitution Reaction -8:53 Bond Dissociation Energy -16:24 Calculating Bond Dissociation Energy -17:51 Exothermic Reaction -22:24 Methane and Iodine Example -25:04 Endothermic Reaction -27:00 Free Energy and Equilibria -32:03 Ring Flip of Cyclohexane