Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms

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Summary: Intermediate Organic Chemistry
Review: I found this book very helpful and useful before I started my graduate studies in chemistry. It serves to fill the gap bewteen materials covered in a regular 1-year organic chemistry sequence and the graduate-level courses. I took an advanced organic course in undergraduate and Sundberg/Carrey's Advanced Organic Chemistry was chosen as the text. Mr Miller's treatment of advanced topics like electricylic reactions, cycloaddition reactions, sigmatrophic reactions, linear free energy relationships, etc are very clear and easy-to-follow. If you find other advanced texts complicated to read, you might want to pick up a copy of Mr Miller's text.

Rating:
Summary: Intermediate Organic Chemistry
Review: I found this book very helpful and useful before I started my graduate studies in chemistry. It serves to fill the gap bewteen materials covered in a regular 1-year organic chemistry sequence and the graduate-level courses. I took an advanced organic course in undergraduate and Sundberg/Carrey's Advanced Organic Chemistry was chosen as the text. Mr Miller's treatment of advanced topics like electricylic reactions, cycloaddition reactions, sigmatrophic reactions, linear free energy relationships, etc are very clear and easy-to-follow. If you find other advanced texts complicated to read, you might want to pick up a copy of Mr Miller's text.

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Summary: Great for potential grad students
Review: I took a physical organic chemistry course as an undergrad and we used this book. It offers a simple but helpful approach to mechanisms which are not normally covered in a year-long organic chemistry course. If you love o.chem but aren't sure if you want to go on to grad school, this book can change your mind. It simplifies and pulls together some of the more complex parts of o.chem.