Organic Chemistry (Study Guide and Solutions Manual)

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Summary: This is the best organic chemistry book
Review: I have the 1984 edition and it's still my favorite. I love this book! The book is conversational in tone and very easy to read. The electron diagrams lead to understanding rather than memorizing organic chemistry reactions. The explanations are through. The graphics and text are balanced. The problems are interesting and challenging. The accompanying solution manual provides all the details needed to completely understand the answers. This book shows that chemistry can be beautiful and understandable. I am sure that it has only gotten better in later editions. Thank you, Dr. Loudon, for writing such a wonderful book.

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Summary: BEST ORGANIC TEXT
Review: I sold my textbooks that I had used for Organic I (Wade), and Organic II (Solomons) in the middle of the semester and bought this one instead (since our teacher don't use the book, only his notes). I found this book so much easier to learn from. Especially for someone who has had trouble learning the subject.

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Summary: An Acceptable Organic Text
Review: This is the text we teach from in the accelerated organic course at Harvard. While it is a very readable text, and that is important, it is not very technical and many definitions (see Curtin Hammer principle) are just plain incomplete. A good text for a simple course but no real weight here.