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Good Organic Chemistry Books
Mitch:
For Undergraduate Students
Title: Organic Chemistry
Author: Nick Greeves
Description: The Clayden book is my favorite. It's maybe a little advanced for someone encountering organic chem for the first time, but it's awesome nonetheless.--movie
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For Undergraduate Students
Title: Organic Chemistry
Author: Robert T. Morrison
Description: I been using this book since my GCE A levels. It has proved very useful when I was studying for my STEP paper. Even now at university, this book explains chemistry concept in few paragraphs so clearly that my lecturer takes an hour to teach. The concepts are well-introduced and explained step by step. It doesnt presume alot of pre-knowledge, but it builds up its depth chronologically from the 1st chapter.--geodome
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For Undergraduate Students
Title: Organic Chemistry
Author: K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Neil Eric Schore
Description: A great introduction into the field of Organic Chemistry. This is the undergraduate textbook for Organic Chemistry used at Berkeley.--Mitch
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For Graduate Students and Advanced Undergraduate Students
Title: Advanced Organic Chemistry, Fourth Edition - Part A
Author: Francis A. Carey
Description: Carey and Sundberg has been the standard first-year grad. student text for a long time. Personally, I don't like it that much. There is a lot of good information, but I found the writing really bland and inaccessible. I pretty much only use C&S to look up some raw data, not for explanation of concepts. I might be in the minority on that though.--movies
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For Graduate Students and Advanced Undergraduate Students
Title: Advanced Organic Chemistry, Fourth Edition - Part B
Author: Richard J. Sundberg
Description: Carey and Sundberg has been the standard first-year grad. student text for a long time. Personally, I don't like it that much. There is a lot of good information, but I found the writing really bland and inaccessible. I pretty much only use C&S to look up some raw data, not for explanation of concepts. I might be in the minority on that though.--movies
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For Graduate Students
Title: March's Advanced Organic Chemistry
Author: Michael B. Smith, Jerry March
Description: For those serious about learning organic chemistry, this will touch on all advanced topics in the field.--Mitch
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For Graduate Students
Title: Modern organic synthesis
Author: Dale L Boger
Description: The Boger book (called Modern Organic Synthesis: Lecture Notes is kind of the same way, tons of information and references to primary literature, but no text explaining any of the concepts. It really is just Boger's lecture notes. I had to get this book for a class and so we covered a lot of the info in lecture. Without the lecture it would be very, very difficult to learn from this book. Definitely not a book for beginners, but if you have a good base in organic chem, it's a nice addition. Also, it doesn't have an index (just a table of contents), so you have to look through it enough to know what is in there and where. Finally, you have to buy this book directly from Scripps, and when I bought mine they didn't accept credit cards. So I had to mail a check, wait for them to cash it, and then wait for the book to be shipped. It took about three weeks in all. That said, I use the book a lot.--movies
Mitch:
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cbee:
OK, I need to add my two cents. Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry. It contains the basics on how to do many practical organic techniques as well as representitive experiments. All the experiments are fairly basic, but I use the thing a suprising amount. Somtimes you just want a quick prep for how to hydrolyse a nitrile to an acid/ ester, or how to set up a liquid ammoina reaction. The section on derivatives may be a little out of touch (in fact most of the structure determination section is pretty old school) but it is still an invaluble source for a lot of basic chemistry. Or am I just a hopless romantic?
Cisco
The Good Doctor:
Indeed nice books!
What i also recommend for students is Streitweisers' " Organic Chemistry".
If u are more interested in design, or optimization to bioactive Pharma compounds and Medicinal Chemistry for industry then an absolute topper is "The Practise of Medicinal Chemistry" by Camille Wermuth (Elsevier).
Blueshawk:
I found that
Organic Chemistry 4th Ed by Bruice to be a good resource for
introductery O.chem.
Though one problem is the use of common names for cpds in the homework section of the book.
There is a complete study guide as well with answer to almost all the questions.
EDIT: spellcheck on chemistry
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