Organic Chemistry (5th Edition) by Paula Y. Bruice Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Organic Chemistry (5th Edition)
Book Review: Errors run rampant
Summary: 3 Stars
This book details the mechanisms well but was their an editing process? Numerous errors are throughout the book. I am missing two pages from the book as well. The solutions manual is also poorly organized.Book Review: grrrr Organic
Summary: 3 Stars
Orgo is tough folks! it just might keep me out of vet school. i believe msu was the first school to start using the third edition. it wasn't even printed when we started class! we were in class a week b4 they came out & it took another month to get the study guide. i still haven't gotten the cd rom that was supposed to be included with the book. i called the publisher & they were supposed to send it to me. bruice tries her best to explain a topic that makes absolutely no sense to me. if u buy this book, make sure you get one with the cd rom in it. and if you wanna wait another semester, you can have mine, slightly, and i mean SLIGHTLY, used.Book Review: Bruice's book is amazing!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Bruice does an excellent job conveying the material and adds great trivia about scientists and interesting compounds (like the section on mustard gas). One of the best parts of the book is the use of color, which adds to the readability of the text. However, I don't think Dr. Bruice covered enough molecular orbital theory, and a more in-depth discussion of stereochemistry would be helpful. But overall, this book is great and I would recommend it to anyone.Book Review: Orgo w/Biochemistry emphasis
Summary: 5 Stars
I found a copy of the text in my college library, and I knew it was different. My professor focuses exclusively on reactions in industry; I just have to memorize what seem to me to be incoherent (but related) sets of reactions. I am a biochemistry student (and I actually took biochem before orgo) and the course seems to distance itself from biochemistry.In contrast, Bruice embraces biochemistry. It is still a full survey that contains all the topics you would expect in an orgo text, but teaches it in the context of biochemistry. It seems that whenever possible, the text includes some molecule that you will eventually see when you take biochemistry.
Beyond this, it is a very clear and readable text, and tries to emphasize reaction mechanisms over memorization.
I plan on buying it and reading it this summer to make up for all the stuff that my present orgo professor messed up on.
Book Review: bruice's organic chem is not very helpful!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a student of organic chemistry at Rutgers University which uses bruise's book. I have used both the first and second edition and can tell you that the second edition differes very little from the first. It was not worth the money for me to buy the second edition after already owning the first. The author makes what would be an easy concept to understand very difficult. For example, a very easy reaction to predict in organic chemistry is the diels-alder reaction. Bruice's treatment of this does not include numbering the original carbon diene and dienophile, which makes predicting the product so much easier. organic chemistry is difficult enough without the added complexitity of the author trying to make things harder. Even the studyguide only has "selected topics" that it reviews. If one has difficulty with a topic that is not included in the "selected topics", then there is no place to review it. I would recommend Louden's organic chemistry which makes the same concepts easier to understand. If you want to fail organic, go for paula bruice's book.....