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Title: Comprehensive Organic Transformations : A Guide to Functional Group Preparations by Richard C. Larock ISBN: 0-471-19031-4 Publisher: Wiley-VCH Pub. Date: 22 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $199.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Agreed - a must have for the practicing organic chemist
Comment: I agree that the bad reviews are probably predominantly from non-chemists. Larock's first edition has become an absolute standard reference on the desk of the practicing organic chemist, who is after lead references and an idea of how a given transformation has been done. I have seen his 2nd edition and it is much the same, only updated and expanded. The price is high, but typical for the field and quite justified. I am waiting til I can buy it with faculty startup funds, but in 6 months it will be on my desk!
Rating: 4
Summary: Ignore the non-chemists reviewing this book.
Comment: I want to help others sort through the conflicting reviews of this book. As a PhD chemist, I can say unequivocally that this book is not for the non-professional, as I suspect the negative reviewers are. The indexing system is not intuitive, but makes sense once you've begun to use it. One of the reviewers complains that database searching is better than this book. This book is intended to help you find straightforward procedures for relatively straightforward reactions and allows you to look at the many things that have been tried to effect a given transformation. These are things that the databases can't help much with since these reactions have been done in the literature thousands of times, and any search will generate a huge mess of matches.
Rating: 2
Summary: Hoping Big but Disappointing
Comment: The title "Comprehensive Orgainc Transformations" strikes me with much hope that all representative functional groups tranfer and reactions will be fully explained and included in one volume for easy reference. Well, not so quick.
Cited references from this volume might be the only (+) that I will credit to the piece. The organization of the book is extremely perplexing and weird. It is not very easy to find a reaction that I desire. In fact, the details for transformation are disappointingly little. If you plan to get this book with the same expectation, you should turn to Jerry March's Advanced Organic Chemistry or the Beilstein Cross-Fire Organic Reaction and Compounds software. Any advanced texts on organic synthesis will give you more details.
Oh, by the way, the price () is just stunningly high and ridiculous.
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Title: Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis by Theodora W. Greene, Peter G. M. Wuts ISBN: 0471160199 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $110.00 |
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Title: Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) by Arthur Israel Vogel ISBN: 0582462363 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $161.25 |
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Title: Purification of Laboratory Chemicals ISBN: 0750675713 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 20 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $89.99 |
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Title: March's Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure, 5th Edition by Michael B. Smith, Jerry March ISBN: 0471585890 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $89.50 |
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Title: Name Reactions: A Collection of Detailed Reaction Mechanisms by Jie J. Li, Jie Jack Li ISBN: 3540402039 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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