Organic Chemistry

by Marc Loudon, Jim Parise

Loudon and Parise's Organic Chemistry is known for its clear writing, high standard of accuracy, and creative problems. This edition contains over 1,800 problems—many of them new and taken directly from the scientific literature. The book is used at a wide variety of schools, such as UC Berkeley, Caltech, Colorado, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Illinois, Maryland, Purdue, Yale, Wisconsin, and many more. This edition provides students with more health examples drawn from modern medical practice, as well as many cutting-edge topics from modern synthetic organic chemistry. In addition to the printed book, students can rely on Sapling Learning’s online homework platform for extra learning and assessment. The platform offers automatic grading, an easy-to-use interface, and instructive feedback. Instructors can select from a variety of existing problem sets—over 1,000 of Loudon's problems are in the platform!—or they can modify the questions or author them from scratch. Not only does the software allow students to easily draw and interact with structures, it allows them to draw entire reaction mechanisms, including showing the movement of electrons with curved electron arrows.

Genres: Textbooks, Chemistry, Nonfiction, Science

1680 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Jeffrey Romine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great textbook with an abundance of homework problems. There are a number of small differences to other textbooks, such as formulas for determining hybridization, oxidation states, equilibrium fractions, energy of molecular orbitals, etc., which I found interesting to see. There is a heavier emphasis on spectroscopy and less of an emphasis on pericyclic reactions, which is relegated to the last chapter. All in all, this is a winner.

[Stephen · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book made me cry.

[mishu_2432 · Rating 4 out of 5]

everyone’s hating but my boy marc did a great job, organic chemistry just sucks is all. great read, awful subject.

[c · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do your problem sets, kids. And remember, compared to Attic Greek, O-Chem is a snap.

[merriamalmaiahi · Rating 3 out of 5]

FINALLY DONE WITH THIS BOOK!!! no more organic chemistry nightmares about arrow pushing and keto enol tautomerization, i choose peace :)

[Meowna · Rating 4 out of 5]

concepts were explained well and the background context was interesting to read. made me cry a few times though