Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A: Structure and Mechanisms

This is used as a reference textbook in graduate level courses, and it's great. A lot of content, very understandable. Some Phys Chem concepts are actually clearer in this textbook than in the Phys Chem ones.

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If you are buying this book it is most likely for a graduate level physical organic chemistry course. Which means reviews are probably fairly pointless, since you have to buy the book. You should at least know that the book is well written and actually a helpful resource.Personally I struggled with the class, but the book was helpful and fairly easy to use. Despite my best efforts, I cannot imagine a chair structure in my head. If this is a problem for you as well I would suggest another course if possible, and if not you will need a model kit.

While this text is not my favorite for advanced organic, it has a lot of examples for each section of reactions. When used in class along with the professor's guidance it is decent. I mainly don't care for the way they notate the compounds with letters, I'm more of a stick diagram person.

This book was recommended by my organic chemistry professor, so I purchased it. Some of the information is over my head right now, but will surely be beneficial as I climb the academic ladder, as I am pursuing a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.

this book is organized well and it has good examples, explanations, an online version, good problems, structures and answer key. easy to follow as a student and as a teacher giving the lecture. I have had much worse chemistry especially organic books in terms of explaining things in a way that can be understood, not over complicated.HOWEVER... even though this book is NOT by any means the first edition, I have never seen so many errors in a book in my life; text or otherwise. there are errors in the problems, text, consistency, charges, bonds, numbers, structures, arrow pushing, reagent placement... the information is right and the references can help to figure out real discrepancies but there are just so many little errors as if the book was NEVER edited before printing, or at least not by anyone who has any kind of chemistry background. this in unacceptable for a graduate level science book! it has gotten so bad that our teacher is giving away extra credit to students who can find and correct errors by reading ahead so he can make sure to point them all out in class to prevent further problems! not complaining about the extra credit but... come on.To top it all off, this book it just heavy as hell and it's not even a hard cover (so glad I didn't have to pay extra for that, not just money but for having to carry it everywhere!) barely fits in my bag most of the time anyway.

The chapters in this book are ripe with good information that post orgo 2 chemists will find illuminating. However, the book suffers from poor editing (terrible chemdraw and errors in the problems that are new to this edition) and a mediocre writing style.

This book is an excellent reference on the latest developments in the theory and practice of synthetic and physical organic chemistry. As someone who did their graduate work more than 40 years ago, I found it to be a very good source of material for refreshing my knowledge of the subject.

Carey and Sundberg is where I turn when I’m looking to understand something in more detail. Unlike most textbooks, mechanisms are discussed in exacting detail, with thousands of references to allow easy access to the original literature. As an example, the treatment of simple nucleophilic substitution takes almost 100 pages explaining the various effects of structure, solvent etc on reactivity and the experiments used to determine this.Despite this praise, the book isn’t great to read. The structures are drawn terribly (common to many American textbooks) and the text is littered with small mistakes that can cause confusion.Overall a great addition to a postgraduate/researchers bookshelf, but overkill for anything else.

Un testo veramente pesante. In senso letterale, pesa molto ed è pieno di dettagli, spiegazioni elucidazioni che per corsi di base sono decisamente troppi. Per chi, invece, volesse avere un testo capace di esprimere criticamente le teorie più accreditate su struttura e meccanismi delle reazioni chimiche in chimica organica, supportando tutto peraltro con calcoli di chimica computazionale, non potrei consigliare di meglio.

El libro me gusta porque está muy bien organizado, contiene además muchas ilustraciones de los orbitales moleculares, diagramas energéticos y muchas tablas de datos que facilitan el acceso a la información y por lo tanto la comprensión del tema. Es un libro de 1200 páginas, pesado pero de tamaño compacto comparado con el libro "Organic Chemistry" del mismo autor Carey. Hay que tener cuidado con la pasta pues es blanda y al ser un libro tan pesado esta tiende a maltratarse fácilmente.

Muy buen libro para estudiantes avanzados en química orgánica. Un set de libros que no pueden faltar en la estantería de todo laboratorio de investigación en síntesis orgánica.

Arrivato nei tempi previsti. Ordinato per studi universitari facoltà di chimica