Organic Chemistry

By Susan McMurry and Susan E. McMurry

Book Overview

John McMurry's best-selling text presents organic chemistry in a new edition that is up-to-date, beautifully written, visually striking, and pedagogically sound. Described by many of its users as ''an eminently teachable text'' McMurry sets the standard in the field. The writing style has received almost universal acclaim from its users. McMurry introduces new concepts only as needed and immediately illustrates them with concrete examples. And wherever possible, he ties material together with brief reviews, overviews, and reaction summaries. The result is a text that helps students mentally organize the material; a text that helps them understand concepts (not just memorize facts); and a text that helps them make sense of the voluminous amount of material they encounter in the study of organic chemistry...McMurry uses a simple but important polar reaction--the addition of HBr to an alkene--as the lead-off reaction to illustrate the general principles of organic reactions. Users of former editions found this an excellent choice because of its relative simplicity (no prior knowledge of chirality or kinetics is required), and its importance as a polar reaction on a common functional group that offers students the key to understanding hundreds of thousands of ionic reactions. By selecting this particular model, McMurry is able to offer an unusually early presentation of organic reactions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534162193
• ISBN13: 9780534162191
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Length: 1296 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 7.5" x 1.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Buy

This was a last minute purchase for school and the book was shipped quickly and arrived on time.

Absolutely necessary for O Chem!

if you're taking o chem, then you need this book. the summaries are helpful for review of chapters or in the worst case scenario, in substitution of the chapters. but the most important part of this book are the solutions to the problems. the only way you'll learn organic chemistry, like it or not, is by practicing problems. this solutions manual is the only way to know if you're doing those problems correctly - the text book does NOT contain solutions for problems in the book, beside the worthlessly easy ones contained directly in the chapters. in addition to the solution, it contains an explanation for all problems that require one. THIS BOOK IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY! you won't be disappointed. if anything, go in on it with a friend that is also taking the course. you WILL need this book.

study guide

i think it's quite helpful and gives you some " experience" and more confidence before dealing directly with the exams themselves.!the questions make you more acquainted with what types of questions u might expect for the exams..and thus you hve more chances of doing better!