Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 36-36 of 36
 shows the elegant structure of organic chemistry July 25, 2005
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Organic chemistry can be a very systematic and logical branch of chemistry, if you get from a good lecturer or text. Even with just a couple of terms in a freshman university class, you should be able to understand and draw pages of reaction pathways. Perhaps by using Winter's book?!
It explains the material pretty directly. No abstruse concepts. You learn enough to appreciate why alkynes have more energy than alkenes or alkanes. And indeed, how to go between these types.
The book also covers other kinds. Aldehydes, esters, ethers, carboxylic acids, phenols... All of which have a nomenclature that can seem terribly formidable at first. But the book explains the precise logic behind much of that nomenclature. If you follow the material, you can soon find yourself rattling off a 30 character name of a molecule, or being able to draw that molecule, given its name.
Hopefully, the book will help you appreciate the conceptual elegance of organic chemistry.
Showing reviews 36-36 of 36
|
