Customer Reviews

Introduction to Organic Chemistry

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This text is a valuable and well-written tool for any person that may have little familiarity with organic chemistry but is interested in learning. Text is accompanied by diagrams and pictures that provide visual aid to help in understanding. Throughout the chapters, sample questions are included along with descriptive answers that help understand the solution's process. Each chapter has questions pertaining to the material covered that are objective as well as questions that may be meaningful in a real-life context. Solutions to problems only exist in the text for odd-numbered questions. Even-numbered questions will require the solution manual.

There are a lots pictures in the book, and explain theories very well. However, solutions for problems are not in this book, have to buy seperately.

The textbook is OK. My instructor disagrees with it quite often, so it's not a bible for the class I'm taking, which is kind of a bummer. But it's an OK chem textbook.

The real problem with it is WileyPlus, which is crap. I got a used textbook, so it didn't come with a WileyPlus code, so I had to buy it separately. It was $95. (!!) It gives me access to an electronic version of the textbook and homework problems. The homework in there is totally impossible--drawing molecules with their program is guaranteed to frustrate me, and I spend way more time trying to learn the stupid thing than actually learning organic chemistry. Also, the textbook is in frames (Frames!), so I cannot read it on my iPad because half of the text is off in outer space. WileyPlus is just plain awful.

So, before buying a used copy of the textbook, find out if your instructor is going to require WileyPlus and then figure out which is more economical because a bunch of people in my class ended up spending way more than they needed to when they got the used book and then had to buy the WileyPlus separately.

I had ordered this book from somewhere else first, because it was a paperback option and less expensive, and I didn't even get informed that they'd cancelled my order until it should've been shipped, a week later. When I ordered this one, the estimated arrival date was the 23rd, and it not only came in in perfect condition at a far lower price than my university, but it shipped earlier and made it to my house by the 20th. I'm very impressed!

I needed an Organic Chemistry book used because I didn't want to spend 200$ in the bookstore and this one for only 30$ caught my eye. It said there was a mild coffee stain along the bottom and some wear around the edges. The book arrived with exactly that condition and I am pleased that the seller was honest and there were no troubles whatsoever.