Organic Chemistry, Hybrid Edition

by William Henry Brown, Brent L. Iverson, Eric Anslyn

Succeed in the course with this student-friendly, proven text. Designed throughout to help you master key concepts and improve your problem-solving skills, CHEMISTRY, Seventh Edition includes a running margin glossary, end-of-chapter in-text mini study guides, a focus on "how to" skills, and more in-chapter examples and problems than any text on the market. To help you understand reaction mechanisms, the authors offset them in a stepwise fashion and emphasize similarities between related mechanisms using just four different breaking a bond, making a new bond, adding a proton, and taking a proton away. Thoroughly updated throughout, the book offers numerous biological examples for premed students, unique roadmap problems, a wide range of in-text learning tools, and integration with an online homework and tutorial system, which now includes an interactive multimedia eBook. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections

Genres: Science, Textbooks, Chemistry, Reference, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

William H. Brown is emeritus professor of chemistry at Beloit College (Beloit, Wisconsin), where he was twice named Teacher of the Year. His teaching responsibilities include organic chemistry, advanced organic chemistry, and, more recently, special topics in pharmacology and drug synthesis. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University under the direction of Gilbert Stork and did postdoctoral work at California Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona.

Reviews

[Chris Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great textbook. It's very easy to read; chapters around the forty-page mark fly by quickly. The authors focus on mechanisms much of the time, which I think is probably one of the best ways to really understand organic chemistry's reactions. Sometimes you have to skip a few pages to see the mechanism (often outlined in an orangish color) of a reaction they're introducing but that's not too big of a deal. Another thing is that unless your professor gives problem sets to help you work through the material, the solutions manual is pretty much essential. The problems in the text were usually extremely easy compared to what I had on exams, though.

[lliah · Rating 4 out of 5]

The roadmaps that diagramed all the reactions were life savers and helped me make my own master copy! The information was dense as expected, but I mostly skimmed over things, and focused on areas I was either confused on or what my professor pointed out in class! I don’t think there’s a lot of jargon and a lot of it is clear and explained as simple as it can possibly get... I did take ochem I with Dr.Iverson so that was also a plus in making the most out of this tool. That man is a genius who really knows how to make ochem understandable and actually fun and challenging.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're into o-chem, then I think this is a pretty good textbook. Mechanisms are split off into their own sections and well diagrammed to help enable understanding. It's thorough, but dense (obviously - it's o-chem). Occasionally they give real world examples that help bring things into perspective.

[Joey Genna · Rating 5 out of 5]

God I love orgo chem

[Cameron]

did it in 10 days

[Cody Seal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very easy to read. Reaction mechanisms are well illustrated. I do not like that the end of chapter questions are not included in the physical text; they're only in the accompanying ebook (I hate ebooks), and there aren't even the customary solutions for the odd problems. OWL access is supposed to make up for this, but I don't find it as beneficial as working problems with pen and paper. Working organic chemistry problems on a computer feels confining and is much slower than writing.

Edit: This review is for the paperback hybrid edition.

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

To honestly tell the truth, the only time that I cracked open this book was to do the extracredit. My teacher made up her own homework assignments and quizes. She taught everything she wanted us to know about organic chemistry from the book and I only ever studied my notes. I passed my class with an A. So, am I going to give this book 5 stars? No, but I am going to give it three. When I briefly used it, it was easy to understand.

[Jim Zubricky · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is not the best Organic Chemistry textbook out there, but it's not the worst, either. The first half of the text makes the transition from general to organic MUCH easier, but after the first half of the book (about Chapter 10 or so), then the book changes form and becomes difficult to follow at times.

[Chen · Rating 3 out of 5]

UBC, Chem 203 - Introduction to Organic Chemistry. Probably not the best book at explaining organic chem and obviously cramming 200+ pages in 2 days before the exam did not help with the understanding process either.

[jacalyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

i have a feeling this one will be on my shelf for a long long time. I keep finding myself drawn back to this book when life has taken me for a curve I just don't understand.

[Chip · Rating 1 out of 5]

hate it

[Guy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as interesting as I thought it would be! I had higher hopes as I enjoyed general chemistry a lot. Chemistry seems so non-deterministic to me now; I think of it as being voodoo.