Simple molecules : hybridization, conformation and configuration -- Chiral molecules : one stereogenic centre -- Molecules with two (or more) stereogenic centres -- Stereochemistry of carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen double bonds -- Chirality without stereogenic carbon -- Stereoisomerism in cyclic structures -- Substitution reactions at saturated carbon -- Prochirality, enantiotopic and diastereotopic groups and faces : use of NMR spectroscopy in stereochemistry.