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Summary: Learn, not just memorize!
Review: The reason this book is good is because it will help you actually learn how to do organic chemistry instead of just memorizing reactions and their mechanisms. This book answers "WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?". A very important book for the graduate student in organic chemistry.
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Summary: Terrific
Review: This book is not the first of its kind. Audrey Miller wrote the first one-"Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry". Miller used a renovating approch to treat organic reaction mechanisms. Mechanisms are not a bunch of random knowledges to be memorized any more. They can be analyzed and mastered. However Grossman did a terrific job writing this book. It covers more material than Miller's. Both books are easy to read. Keys to answers of this book can be downloaded from internet(over 200 pages). This book is great for graduate student who's struggling on his/her cumes, for industrial organic chemist who wants to have a thorough review of organic mechanism. Great value for the money.
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Summary: Terrific
Review: This book is not the first of its kind. Audrey Miller wrote the first one-"Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry". Miller used a renovating approch to treat organic reaction mechanisms. Mechanisms are not a bunch of random knowledges to be memorized any more. They can be analyzed and mastered. However Grossman did a terrific job writing this book. It covers more material than Miller's. Both books are easy to read. Keys to answers of this book can be downloaded from internet(over 200 pages). This book is great for graduate student who's struggling on his/her cumes, for industrial organic chemist who wants to have a thorough review of organic mechanism. Great value for the money.
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Summary: Excellent for 1st year grad students
Review: This book was extremely helpful in studying for my PhD qualifier. I would suggest it to any first year (or later) grad student. One warning, though: this book has NO references!! I hope you never want to do any of these reactions in the lab... The lack of refs is the only thing keeping it to four stars instead of five.
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Summary: Great Intro Book
Review: This is a great intro book. The reaction mechanisms are explained. Easy to understand
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Summary: By far the best book for the first year graduate
Review: When I took organic class at graduate level, I was really bombed by the reactions. It seems the teacher is only keep on throwing us the reactions until we are dead or surrendered(dropped). After one year frustrated struggling, I found this book and knew there is another way to approach the organic chemistry -- systematic approach. With this book, you can build up your own fundamental organic knowledge; you can really understand reactions not just memorize them for the sake of tests; you can efficiently learn something instead of forgetting them all after the tests. In my view, this book is by far the best organic book for the first year graduate student. It's a ladder between the undergraduate and graduate. It really gives broad and clear idea of what organic chemistry is going on and provides solid foundation for further studies.
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