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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #45 on: March 08, 2007, 03:47:38 AM »
I'm getting this really awesome book called The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms, 2nd edition.

I'm just getting it because I want it for my own reading, but I read in other places that graduate students appear to use it for reviewing for their literature exams.



It teaches you to write mechanisms for the sake of them making chemical sense, not blindly memorizing them, which a lot of people tend to do.

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #46 on: March 08, 2007, 12:46:23 PM »
That a pretty good book, and it certainly will teach you to avoid a lot of the common, silly errors that you see in mechanisms.  It teaches how to think in terms of mechanisms.

That said, I think it can be a little heavy-handed and absolute on some things where it isn't totally warranted.

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #47 on: March 09, 2007, 01:06:03 AM »
That a pretty good book, and it certainly will teach you to avoid a lot of the common, silly errors that you see in mechanisms.  It teaches how to think in terms of mechanisms.

That said, I think it can be a little heavy-handed and absolute on some things where it isn't totally warranted.

Thanks movies I haven't gotten it yet but I ordered it a couple of days ago.  I can't wait though.  Lots to learn.   :P

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #48 on: March 09, 2007, 12:06:16 PM »
That reminds me.  This book by Kurti and Czako (two grad students, believe it or not) is probably the best name reactions book out there.  It's chock full of references (both the orginals and subsequent applications) and lots of examples and complete mechanisms.  Really a fantastic resource.


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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #49 on: March 28, 2007, 01:31:36 AM »
can you suggest a book which explains  c13nmr  in a simple manner?

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #50 on: April 16, 2007, 01:03:47 AM »
can you suggest a book which explains  c13nmr  in a simple manner?

I googled and got

http://www.wfu.edu/~ylwong/nmr/c13/

if you have the cash get the Silverstein spectroscopy book

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #51 on: April 16, 2007, 10:28:04 PM »
G. Marc Loudon's "Organic Chemistry" is a great book too  ;)

http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-G-Marc-Loudon/dp/0195119991
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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #52 on: June 15, 2007, 04:27:51 AM »
Kitson, Trevor M. 'Organic chemistry: A guide to common themes'
is a good organic chemistry book to all of you!

It gives brief information about carbocation, carboanion and free radical. Also various examples of electrophilic and nucleophilic attack are listed. It is an easily understandable book and suitable for all high school / university student!
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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #53 on: June 20, 2007, 07:36:47 AM »
Ha, Trevor was a lecturer of mine here in NZ. Small world i guess.

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #54 on: July 27, 2007, 10:37:54 AM »
all books are very good and same books are very bad. Depends on what you are looking for. so i guess there is no good books nor bad books.
Depends on yourself. so i hate this topics

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #55 on: August 26, 2007, 10:49:01 AM »
All book are very good

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #57 on: October 18, 2007, 10:13:11 AM »
I used G.A.Taylors book: Organic Chemistry for students of biology and medicine. Good enough for my needs way back when I was a student....

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #58 on: October 27, 2007, 11:22:44 PM »
All the books are useful, but they also cost a lot. where is the free text on line?

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Re: Good Organic Chemistry Books
« Reply #59 on: October 28, 2007, 09:57:35 PM »
hey, I am really new here..how do u post a question/answer???

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