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Title: Organic Chemistry by John McMurry ISBN: 0-534-37366-6 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 08 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $139.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book with a good teacher
Comment: I think that this text is very helpful if read while being taught by a capable teacher. Learning organic chemistry using this book alone could end up being very confusing for students.
Rating: 2
Summary: Doesn't make students think
Comment: In the preface of McMurry's book, he says that the main reason he writes Organic books is because "I love to write." Oh, great! That explains a lot! And it shows...this text is well-organized and written. It also can't help but give ya a warm, fuzzy feeling about Organic chem. But it comes off as a *joke* if you're a chem major and you actually want to *learn* organic chemistry! The discussions are often so incredibly simplified and spoon-feeding that many students come away saying, "Okay, now I know that this reaction happens. But I don't know *why*! " In other words, McMurry often sticks to basics and doesn't include mechanisms, and when he does, a separate entire page is used to show the whole mechanism, instead of placing it at the end of a paragraph of text. He also spends an excessive number of chapters on basic concepts including bonding, "the nature of organic reactions", and a review of General Chem concepts. It isn't until page 178 that he *finally* starts discussing the organic chemistry. I'm dismayed to hear that this is the textbook most widely used by Organic classes all over the world. I can certainly see using it for a very intro-type course, but not for traditional courses where most of the students are premeds and science majors. If you want a *real* Organic text, use Vollhardt and Schore's book, as I did when my class was trudging along in McMurry, learning only the basics from rote-memorization. Not only is Vollhardt/Schore a more sophisticated approach, but you will gain more critical thinking skills that will allow you to better attack complex problems. It seems like McMurry writes his books in an effort not to *scare* people off of an area of chemistry that has a reputation for being difficult. Noble intentions, but in the long run, it *can be* detrimental. For me, this book is like a "Cliff's Notes" of organic chem. In other words, it doesn't give you all you need to know.
Rating: 4
Summary: Ok for Introductory OChem
Comment: Like many have mentioned, the book is good for beginners and intro classes. The problems and material are relatively "simple." If that is all you require, "easy," not very indepth and just the simple basics, the book does it's job.
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Title: Organic Chemistry by Susan McMurry ISBN: 0534371922 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.95 |
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Title: Organic Chemistry With Infotrac by John McMurry ISBN: 0534362745 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $139.95 |
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Title: Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments by Kenneth L. Williamson ISBN: 0395902207 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $104.36 |
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Title: Physics 5th Edition by John D. Cutnell, Kenneth W. Johnson ISBN: 047132146X Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 07 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $131.95 |
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Title: McMurry's Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry: Study Guide & Solutions Manual by Susan McMurry ISBN: 0534395740 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.95 |
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