Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds (Hardcover)

by Robert M. Silverstein (Author), Francis X. Webster (Author)

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This book is characterized by its problem-solving approach with extensive reference charts and tables. First published in 1962, this was the first book on the identification of organic compounds using spectroscopy. Now considered a classic, it can be found on the shelf of every Organic Chemist. The key strength of this text is the extensive set of real-data problems in Chapters 8 and 9. Even professional chemists use these spectra as reference data. Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds is written by and for organic chemists, and emphasizes the synergistic effect resulting from the interplay of the spectra.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 6 edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471134570
• ISBN-13: 978-0471134572
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #253,365 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent excercises..., March 12, 2006

By	L. Estrada (BG-OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds (Hardcover)

It's an OK book if you are a novice in the Spectroscopy determination area, but a very nice book if it's going to be used as a reference book. It's very handy and explains the principles of the Spectroscopic and Spectrometric determinations in a very understandable way. Moreover, the excercises are challenging, making this book and excellent tool for those students interested in learning how to determine structures out of some spectra, although the spectra sometimes are so clean that they don't correspond with the one's that are taken by routine. The weak points of this book are the IR chapter and the lack of a UV chapter explaining various useful techniques for structural determination such as ORD and CD. The NMR section is just OK, but there are more details to be explained in the 2-D NMR NOESY, TOCSY and ROESY. I think the Mass Chapters are the best that any single book has offered to me so far to understand quite easily how powerful is the GCMS as a tool for the Structural Determination of Organic Compounds.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Reference vs. Teaching Material, March 4, 2005

By	K. M. Gehrke "eternal student" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book has wonderful charts and tables for quick referencing, however it is sorely lacking in demonstrations and worked out examples for students new to the subject. The chapters are painfully slow and complex when explaining the theory behind the spectrometric methods and effects on classes of molecules. In short, don't use this book to learn the material unless you already know it. It is a comprehensive reference, but not an effective textbook to teach from.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great material, regular text..., July 16, 2001

By	Carlos Valdez (Castro Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

The book is subdivided into only 3 of the 4 classical methods for spectrometric identification of compounds: IR, MS, and finally NMR (covering 1H, 13C and very little of 19F and 31P). UV is left out in this edition, so maybe getting a hold of the old edition's UV chapter (which is extremely well-written) might be desired. The MS and the IR chapters are also well-written and explained out. It is in the main technique (NMR) that the author fails to deliver the subject in a straightforward manner and lacks what I think is most important in this field: a large number of exercises and problems.