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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #90 on: February 15, 2009, 02:37:23 PM »
I think McMurry's organic book is fantastic - very readable (as far as textbooks go) and easy to learn from.

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #91 on: February 15, 2009, 10:29:15 PM »
however i think that the topics are too segregated and do not show the linkages btw the topics i prefer textbooks that provide an amalgation of chemistry concepts(integration of the topics)

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #92 on: February 15, 2009, 11:40:49 PM »
I think McMurry's book is good in understanding concepts and applying them on questions .It is good for a quick review during examinations also.

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #93 on: February 16, 2009, 12:38:18 AM »
however if u compare Mcmurry and Carey ,i think Carey offers better explanation for chemistry concepts

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #94 on: February 16, 2009, 09:47:24 AM »
how about L.G Wade Organic Chemistry textbook
Juz give comments on it

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #95 on: February 16, 2009, 10:50:13 AM »
Does anyone know of any website that sells an array of 2nd hand used textbooks?like L.G Wade, Brown Foote,march

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #96 on: February 16, 2009, 11:22:42 AM »
Hi
I did many problems  with my students and personally liked those problems.But to be very honest I am more into Morrison Boyd , Mcmurry Vogel's practical book of organic chemistry.

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #97 on: February 20, 2009, 01:32:26 AM »
John McMurry - Organic Chemistry
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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #98 on: February 25, 2009, 08:30:16 AM »
For the second part of the course I'm taking, the teacher recommended this following book:

L.D. Field, S. Sternhell, J.R. Kalman: Organic Structures from Spectra, Third edition (Wiley, 2002)

But it's mainly just a lot of spectras and very little theory behind the spectroscopy methods for:
-UV/VIS
-IR
-1H-NMR
-13C-NMR
-Masspectrometry

I was wondering if anyone has any book recommendation for these methods?

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #99 on: February 25, 2009, 08:55:40 AM »

http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/
This site is really good to learn and practice problems on NMR/IR

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #100 on: April 05, 2009, 05:23:16 AM »
I think the Clayden book is great, as well as March's and Smith's.  Other books that I have used or currently use that I think are great are:

Klein: Organic Chemistry II as a Second Language -- I used this in Intro Organic.  I thought my textbook, as informative as it is, was too verbose.  This helps you understand the "organic chemistry mindset" and is compact and easy to read.



Wyatt and Warren: Organic Synthesis - Strategy and Control -- I use this as a reference for modern reactions, new twists on old reactions, asymmetric stuff, etc.



Wyatt and Warren: Organic Synthesis - The Disconnection Approach -- Great for learning the art/science of retrosynthesis, making strategic disconnects, etc.



Kurti: Strategic Applications of Named Reactions -- A must have, goes through many named reactions, what they are, and where they've been used.  Chicks also dig guys who can rattle off a bunch of named reactions :).



Kocienski: Protecting Groups -- Handy to know how to protect and deprotect what, in what conditions, reactivity, and examples of use.  Protection is serious stuff y'know!



Nicolau: Molecules that Changed the World -- A good bedtime story detailing a bunch of natural products, their discovery, total synthesis, etc.
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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #101 on: June 01, 2009, 01:51:01 AM »
im self taught so far and have been primarily using John McMurry's Organic Chemistry (7th edition)

i think this book is very good to learn from. my plan going into it was to get an mcat study guide and go through that first. i didnt understand half of what i was reading, but it gave me a good idea of what to focus on when i switched to the texbook. sort of a read the questions first then the passage later approach.

i also reference other books when i get stuck. Organic synthesis: strategy and control is a good one for that

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #102 on: July 25, 2009, 11:08:57 AM »
I gotta recommend Fessenden and Fessenden 6th Edition. It reads way easier than most organic books I've read. That, and the professor teaching the class also happened to co-author it, which may make me biased.

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #103 on: August 20, 2009, 03:33:33 AM »
we are using Wade's Organic, 5th Edition. We all like this book, but we found some mistakes about names of polysubstituted cycloalkane(trans/cis---R/S).

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #104 on: August 22, 2009, 07:26:24 AM »
I am using a book written by Solomons and Fryhle. Is that good? Or should I switch over to Carey or Wade?

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