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.
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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.
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L. G. "Skip" Wade decided to become a chemistry major during his sophomore ear at Rice University, while taking organic chemistry from Professor Ronald M. Magi After receiving his B.A. from Rice in 1969, Wade went on to Harvard University, ere he did research with Professor James D. White. While at Harvard, he served as the Head Teaching Fellow for the organic laboratories and was strongly influenced by the teaching methods of two master educators, Professors Leonard K. Nash and Frank H. Westheimer.
After completing his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1974, Dr. Wade joined the chemistry faculty at Colorado State University. Over the course of fifteen years at Colorado State, Dr. Wade taught organic chemistry to thousands of students working toward careers in all areas of biology, chemistry, human medicine, veterinary medicine, and environmental studies. He also authored research papers in organic synthesis and in chemical education, as well as eleven books reviewing current research in organic synthesis. Since 1989, Dr. Wade has been a chemistry professor at Whitman College, where he teaches organic chemistry and pursues research interests in organic synthesis and forensic chemistry. Dr. Wade received the A. E. Lange Award for Distinguished Science Teaching at Whitman in 1993.
Dr. Wades interest in forensic science has led him to testify as an expert witness in court cases involving drugs and firearms, and he has worked as a police firearms instructor, drug consultant, and boating safety officer. He also enjoys repairing and restoring old violins and bows, which he has done professionally for many years.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic!,
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This review is from: Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) (Hardcover)
The author has done an excellent job presenting the material in this textbook. The use of colored text and invaluable illustrations really make the lessons clear. There is no need to highlight or make side notes (something I often do) because the text is organized so well. The problems at the end of every section make you focus on what the author is trying to convey. By doing these problems religiously organic chemistry is easier to understand and can actually be fun (well, relatively at least).Note: I recommend getting a really cheap used 4th edition solutions manual to go with the 5th edition book. There are very few differences and it is VERY helpful in terms of understanding where you're going astray with those end-of-section problems. This manual contains helpful explanations, not just answers to problems. Overall "Organic Chemistry 5th Edition" is one of the best scientific textbooks I have ever seen.
38 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not for the serious chemist,
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This review is from: Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) (Hardcover)
As far as traditional style undergraduate organic textbooks go this is a good one. This book has the advantage of being relatively easy to understand, mechanism based view of organic chemistry, and is a good choice for someone who does not wish to become a synthetic chemist. The blue summary pages at the end of each chapter are especially useful as a quick reference and last minute study guide.
That being said, there are problems about this book that make it only worth purchasing as a required text for a serious chemist. While Wade is good about giving mechanisms for the most part, there are parts, especially later in the book and when metal reagents are used, where these are overlooked, leaving the student to either look up the mechanism elsewhere or simply memorize the reuslt. Another problem with Wade is that he tends intoduce a reaction or set of reactions in one section and then only in a later section discuss the regio- and stereo-selectivity of the reaction, which sometimes leads to difficulty getting the full story. The book is arranged as a kind of walk through different functional groups synthesis and reactions. This is a common approach and not a poor one, but by the later chapters, most of the chemistry is review, making these chapters overly long and much less useful than they could have been. A more subtle problem with this text is that it fails to give a student a feel for how laboratory chemistry really works. Reaction examples never have yields, diastereomer ratios, or enantiomeric excesses listed. Many reactions are not a selective as they appear in this text and does not give students a respect for selecting the best reactions for a given synthesis. In summary, reading this book you will certainly understand organic chemistry and be sufficiently equipped to think about the subject. However, for a serious chemist, this is not the best choice. A more in depth and complete book such as that by Clayden and Geleeves would be a better choice.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to understand organic chemistry book?,
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This review is from: Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) (Hardcover)
This textbook is excellent. It makes organic chemistry much easier. The illustrations are great. The book goes step by step, so you don't get lost. You should read the chapters in order. The concepts and terminology build up from previous chapters and you'll be lost without them. Unfortunately, all the teachers I've had jump around a lot. The most important chapter in this regard is chapter 6. You won't know what the book is talking about in later chapters without reading this one. The earlier chapters are just as important to read, but instructors tend to not skip them as often. Also, the solutions manual could be better. It sometimes gives no information about how the answer was solved. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book. It is much better than any other organic chemistry book I've ever read.
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