March's Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure, 5th Edition [Hardcover]

Michael B. Smith (Author), Jerry March (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471585890 | ISBN-13: 978-0471585893 | Publication Date: January 15, 2001 | Edition: 5th

From the reviews of the Fourth Edition ...
"March has been uncompromising in his search for clarity and utility in presentations of a wide variety of essential organic chemistry. It remains an accessible and useful tool for both specialists and nonspecialists in the field. It does an excellent job both as a text for first-year graduate students and a handy reference for others."-Journal of Chemical Education
"The ratio of information to price makes this book a wonderful bargain."-American Scientist
New to this Fifth Edition:
* Michael Smith from the University of Connecticut joins as coauthor for the Fifth Edition
* Contains 20,000 valuable, selected references to the primary literature-5,000 new to this edition
* 40 entirely new sections covering the most important developments in organic chemistry since the previous edition
* Updated illustrations of molecular structures

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...the book remains tremendous value for money...more pages per buck than most other texts...so it will remain a firm favourite as a general organic text and an easy-to-use 1-volume reference...will undoubtedly appear in all organic chemistry libraries and probably on many chemists' personal bookshelves too." (Organic Process Research & Development Journal, Vol. 5, No. 6, November 2001)

From the Publisher

Announcing the Fifth Edition of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry...

- Featuring 40 entirely new sections covering the most important developments in organic chemistry over the last decade

- Contains over 20,000 valuable selected references to the primary literature - 5,000 new to this edition

- With updated sections and chemistry, the new edition of this classic text provides 30% more information than the previous edition

- Michael Smith, University of Connecticut, joins as coauthor

Reviews from the previous edition:

"This fourth edition of a popular book first published in 1968 is welcome indeed. I suspect that I am not alone in keeping a copy near my desk, so that when I develop a sudden interest in some topic, I can obtain a summary of nearly current knowledge and a list of reading references immediately. The information of ratio to price makes this book a wonderful bargain." --American Scientist

"March has been uncompromising in his search for clarity and utility in presentations of a wide variety of essential organic chemistry. It remains an accessible and useful tool for both specialists and non-specialists in the field. It does an excellent job both as a text for first-year graduate students and a handy reference for others." --Journal of Chemical Education

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 2083 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 5th edition (January 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471585890
• ISBN-13: 978-0471585893
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #800,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jerry March's "AOC" - The organic chemist's bible, June 5, 2000

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Michael Weber (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure (Hardcover)

This book simply is "the bible" for organic chemists - it is clearly organized and has the most powerful index I have ever seen in a book. It serves well not only as a reference guide for the working chemist but also is a good book for students.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New edition well worth purchasing!!, January 22, 2001

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Tim E. "madscientist" (Winston Salem, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: March's Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure, 5th Edition (Hardcover)

As a big fan of the 4th edition, I jumped for joy when the 5th edition came out. I purchased it immediately, and I was not disappointed. It's hard to imagine beating the comprehensiveness of the past editions, but somehow Jerry has done it again! Certainly there is a lot of redundancy, but there are so many more reactions and references added that March's 5th is another must have for any serious organic chemist.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Comprehensive Works, November 13, 2000

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Matthew M. Yau "Voracious reader" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure (Hardcover)

Updated for the continuing growth of the field, Jerry March had simply written one of the most comprehensive works in organic chemistry. The huge, thick volume might not serve as a text but rather a desktop reference. It was chosen as a course bible for my organic synthesis class.

The first part of the book deals with strcutures in organic chemistry. It serves as a prerequisite to understanding of reactions and mechanisms. This section contains information about some of the most ambiguous organic intermediates (species) such as nitrenes, carbenes, carbocations, and tautomers. One can also find detailed discussion on cis-trans isomerism and structural reactivity relations.

Part II of the volume discusses organic reactions and types of reactions in depth. Representative reactions include nucleophilic substitution, electrophilic substitution, rearrangements and radical reactions. Though March's work is self-containing as a sole reference, it is also meant to serve as a companion to major texts such as Miller's "Advanced Organic Chemistry", the double volumes of "Advanced Organic Chemistry" by Carey and Sundberg and any undergraduate introductory texts.

March's book distinguishes itself in discussion of organic named reaction such as Susuki reaction, Wolf-Kishner reduction, Swern oxidation, etc. One might often encounter difficulty in looking up named reactions. Jerry March's book will ease much of the trouble. Organic chemists and students should not miss this treasured work. Highly recommended.