Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Organic Chemistry, Third Edition

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Summary: A Valuable Study Tool for Organic Chemistry
Review: If you are looking to purchase this book, you have probably already heard how difficult it is to learn Organic Chemistry. However, this study guide offers lots of practice problems and explainations not found in the text book, helping you to get a better understanding of the subject.

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Summary: Useful, thorough answers, lacks useful summaries
Review: The answers to the first half of every chapter's exercieses in Volhardt and Schore's Organic Chemistry textbook are included within the textbook itself. However, answers to the second portion of the chapter's exercises can only be found in the Study Guide and Solutions Manual (this book), rendering the manual invaluable to organic chemistry students using the aforementioned textbook. While the manual is well-written, and most of the answers are clearly explained, it makes a poor study guide. The chapter summaries are no better, if not worse, than the summaries provided in the text. However, the inclusion of the answers to the exercises outweighs the insufficient "Study Guide" portion of the manual. The only reason to buy this book would be to accompany Volhardt and Schore's Organic Chemistry, Structure and Function, 3rd ed. I would not recommend it as a general organic chemistry study guide.