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Title: Microscale Organic Laboratory with Multistep and Multiscale Syntheses by Dana W. Mayo, Ronald M. Pike, Peter K. Trumper ISBN: 0-471-32185-0 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $93.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It is not that bad
Comment: This is my first semester organic chemistry course. Even though I have been using another book for laboratory "Organic Chemistry Lab [...] by Charles E., Jr. Bell", this book helped me to understand the concepts better (many times the instructor quized us on the reasoning behind an experiment which Bell does not mention).
Moreover, Bell's book is somewhat incomplete. For about 25% of the experiments that I performed, we used hand-outs because Bell's did not handle them correclty.
I think that "developing microscale techniques" section was really good to introduce you to the most important techniques that one must master (which Bell does not mention much either.) I think that this book is not as bad as the other reviewers think, at least, relatively not as bad as they might think.
Rating: 1
Summary: A very bad book
Comment: This is one of the worst textbooks I have ever used. Luckily, we only used to for one week...I couldn't imagine having to use it for any longer than that. Unfortunately there isn't an option for zero stars.
Rating: 1
Summary: The worst book I have EVER had.
Comment: I have had some terrible professors, but I have NEVER had a book that was as insufficient and wholly undeveloped in its topic. Mayo et al. may know what they are doing in the laboratory, but they must know NOTHING of writing books to convey knowledge. Someone told me that this is the most widely used book for organic chemistry labs. If that is true, I hate to see the sad state of science in a few years when we start to see all the chemists it produces. Because of the overwhelming difficulty of the problems in this book, students are forced to concentrate on specific answers to the questions that are asked and not on the concepts overall. The result: for all the complexity and effort involved, the student learns NOTHING. The second half of the book outright states (in the intro to Chapter 7) that "the mechanisms ... are more involved and not generally developed at the introductory level." I am an undergraduate student whose second semester of organic chemistry lab far outstrips the two- semester academic textbook.
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Title: Organic Chemistry With Infotrac by John McMurry ISBN: 0534389996 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $142.95 |
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Title: Physics: Principles with Applications (5th Edition) by Douglas C. Giancoli ISBN: 0136119719 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $131.00 |
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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: The Organic Chemistry Lab Survival Manual: A Student Guide to Techniques by James W. Zubrick ISBN: 0471387320 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 25 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $54.00 |
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Title: Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) by Leroy G. Wade ISBN: 013033832X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $139.00 |
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