Organic Chemistry

by Leroy G. Wade Jr.

In a highly accessible fashion, this top-selling book bridges the gap between conceptual understanding and actual application—while strongly emphasizing the development of problem-solving skills. The book focuses on traditional organic chemistry topics and offers up-to-date aspects of spectroscopy, relevant photographs, and many applications to polymer chemistry integrated throughout the book.

Genres: Science, Textbooks, Chemistry, Nonfiction, Reference, School, Read For School

1296 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1987

Reviews

[drew :)]

yes I’m counting this towards my reading goal because I deserve to get something out of all the pain & suffering I went through for orgo 1&2

[Claire · Rating 2 out of 5]

An emotional read.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

You bet I'm counting this in my books for this year. Over the last 9 months I've read this whole damn book! For a chemistry textbook, I actually found it pretty good. The descriptions of mechanisms are really good and the material is thoroughly explained. It's a challenging subject, but the book does a fine job helping you understand why things react the way they do. If you're needing to learn organic chemistry, I would recommend picking this up - along with a molecular model set and a good teacher. :)

[Ivana · Rating 3 out of 5]

nisan ja ovo dzabe procitala

[Veronica · Rating 4 out of 5]

(the most heartbreaking novel ever written.)

[Carina Shephard]

"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Tina · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book jumps around all over the place, and as far as Organic Chemistry goes its not really the best. most tests in the subject you will need to know step be step how each electron moves during a bonding reaction and this one poorly explains. Also the work problems they show you are overly simplified then you get to the end of chapter questions and its usually nothing like in the previous examples. The subject is hard but this book makes the subject even more so. If the book is your required text do not fret just go to Barnes and Nobles and browse around they usually have at least 5-6 books which will help walk you through the subject a hundred times better. Even the mcat prep book usually has a better written organic chemistry section.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a fantastic teacher, and found this book to be like reading a big book of puzzles. Each chapter just introduces more rules of the game. I took the class years ago, and haven't been able to part with this book. Hmmm, but in reviewing my criteria for stars, though I had originally given this 4 stars, I realize I can't exactly recommend it to all my friends and family, so I had to lower it to 3.

[Soothing Rays · Rating 4 out of 5]

A prescribed book for my Chemistry Honours course.
...a delight to read as it is very simple to understand.

[Ruthie Rolfsmeyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had a pretty inexperienced O Chem teacher, but this book (the latest edition as of 2018) and a youtube channel called "Chad's Prep" (along with Khan Academy) got me through the year. It's one of the only text books I actually read cover to cover. It's O Chem, so it's pretty dry and boring, but the editors do what they can to make it helpful/engaging. I recommend the solutions manual too. I often used the copy at my local library.

[Norbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very difficult love story. With the main characters about some carbon guys and some side characters named oxygen and nitrogen and a few others. It is all about them bonding an breaking. It's like Geordie Shore!

[Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wanted to cry more while reading this than a John Green book :/

[Amanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

It’s not the book, it’s the subject. I don’t enjoy chemistry and so this book was no fun to read. If you love chemistry, I’m sure it’s the book for you.

[3m Lop · Rating 5 out of 5]

De los mejores libros de química para aprender, 100% recomendado ;)

[Miguel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best textbook out there for OChem, the problem sets really have you understand the concepts. Highly used by Faculty in the School of Chemistry at the UNAM in Mexico.

[Leandro Valdes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have just suffered with organic chemistry 1, 2, 3 and organic synthesis. Good book.

[mjose · Rating 1 out of 5]

fr good explication pero por la química orgánica casi dejó la carrera 🤣🤣

[Saylor Goforth · Rating 1 out of 5]

Definitely a tear jerker for sure. Most stressful book I’ve ever read. Made me rethink everything about my life. Made me question my personhood.

[Paul Mojaver · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty good actually. Ofc outside resources were necessary---shoutout to chad's prep and pearson+ videos.

[Lou Rocama · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fairly easy to follow and well organized. It really needs a glossary, and some of the mechanisms showed odd resonance structures, which always ended up with our professor explaining that while it might show this way in the text, he'd prefer if our cations/anions/radicals were in the most stable location in our quizzes. If a less stable resonance structure was involved in the reaction, we were to include both it and the more stable but unreactive form.
The appendices include an invaluable table of FTIR absorbtions, both as bars on a blank spectrum and a list of absorptions of various functional groups. Both go into much more detail than the text does, so were very helpful when annotating spectra for lab reports. A good example is the difference in aromatic absorptions based on their substituents' positions. Ortho, meta, para, and unsymmetrical substituents have characteristic absorptions that make identification much easier, particularly if you don't have an HNMR spectrum. This was especially helpful when dealing with more exotic products that aren't available in spectral databases and so can't be compared with references.
The online homework has issues, though they are much better than last year. Still, every chapter seemed to show with some issue that made our instructor bump back the due date so people had extra time to deal with the site. Frequently these involved the site not recognizing all the enantiomers of molecules, or needing either enantiomer but not both. Java only complicated this with endless updates, which required a new popup authorization after each (Java problems accounted for half of all the due date changes, at least). Of course this is only an issue if you have online homework.
The solutions manual for this is very well done, and works through every problem in the book in detail, when there's detail to be had. However, if you use the online homework, it includes problems not in the book and therefore not in the solutions manual. Most of the naming compounds are answers only, but there's only so much explaining you can do in naming a compound: "It has this many carbons with these branchings. The highest priority group is this. It's this enantiomer." All of this is easily determined by either the molecular structure or it's name, both of which you will have after looking at the answer in the manual.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent college-level organic chemistry text, and one that I've taught out of twice, but I would especially recommend it for chemistry majors - the level of detail is a bit much for biology majors who may not go on to do natural product synthesis. But the power of the detail and exposition is quite good, as are the problem sets and solutions manual.

[Ryan Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author managed to hook me in the first paragraph of the first chapter, and literally had me interested all the way to the last chapter. Loved it! Best organic text out there by far. (Trust me, I have three different texts.)

Uninteresting factoid: Fondren Library (Rice) has a signed copy.

[Stella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like my fellow first year students, I am currently cramming for my finals. This textbook was well organized and provided great explanations to confusing concepts.

To me, this book could have used some more humour and real life analogies a la Psychology by Myers.

[Terri · Rating 3 out of 5]

As far as Organic Chemistry is concerned this book is good and the solution manual is awesome. That being said, organic chemistry is hard AS SHIT. Literally, the toughest class I've ever taken, so yeah, everything you've heard about how awful it is, it's true. Good luck!

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Captain Picard failed organic chemistry while he was a student at the Starfleet Academy so I couldn't complain more when I got a B+! This book is very helpful and provides enough details if you'd like to get involved in natural product synthesis.

[AJ]

This is the only textbook I've thoroughly read and worked from the first to the last page. It's pretentious to be shelving textbooks ("oh, this? Just a lazy afternoon beach read"), but I think this one deserves it.

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a deep obsession of mine in college. Dorky, yes. But also amazing. Organic chemistry is magic.

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good presentation of organic chemistry, City college, Brooklyn college and NYU uses this book. it is a 5/5 star book and is very detailed. It's also very cheap ranging from 1-7$.

[Javier · Rating 5 out of 5]

science

[Prabhjot Singh]

I want to buy this book