Advanced Organic Chemistry: Part B: Reaction and Synthesis (Advanced Organic Chemistry / Part B: Reactions and Synthesis)

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Reviews:

5th Edition Misses the Mark--Loaded with Errors
This review is specifically meant to refer to the latest edition (5th ed.) of this book. The earlier editions were quite good, but the 5th edition completely misses the mark. Ordinarily, one would think that a book such as this would get better and better with each new edition. Not so with this book. For some reason, the 5th edition is loaded with mistakes.....many of these appear to be typesetting errors (e.g., atoms in the wrong place, pentavalent carbons, nonsense intermediates within reaction pathways, etc.). It is terribly disappointing. I do not know what happened at the publisher this time, but, in good conscience, they really should not have released this book the way it is. It does not appear to have been the authors' fault, but rather it was likely the fault of Springer (the publisher). This looks like an example of the mindless side of capitalism....large publishing companies who have already taken over much of their competition also have ridiculous deadlines to meet quarterly earnings goals, so they rush through the publication process and end up turning out garbage. The only way that these companies ultimately avoid getting into a heap of trouble with the FTC or other consumer advocate agencies is by issuing online addendums filled with corrections to the myriad of errors. Ask yourselves, is that why you want to buy a new book..... so that you have to download a 50-page corrections addendum to fix all of the errors that the publisher missed or opted not to correct in the first place? This sort of thing is happening more and more these days in the publishing industry, even with software. And the larger and larger these publishing companies become, the more we see it. I recommend that you DO NOT BUY the 5th edition of this book; it should have been recalled by the publisher, and everyone who bought it should have received a refund. However, if you really want to buy Carey and Sundberg's book, then buy the 4th edition used; you will be much happier. Apparently, Springer scaled back on qualified staff and/or hired a bunch of publishing flunkies sometime between the release of the 4th and 5th editions of this book.


Comprehensive
This is probably the most comprehensive text book available for Organic Chemistry, Develops largely on the Part A of the book. So for a complete understanding you need to possess the Part A of the book. Largely covers the topic of Synthesis and Reactions which is an important part of the Graduate education in Organic Chemistry. Earlier editions of the book cover the same material and are almost as good as this one but each topic in this edition builds up with a different approach of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.
The references provided in each chapter ensure the complete and total understanding of the subject and help in the student in research.
Overall a great book for the Graduate student in Organic Chemistry.


thanks
many thanks for your that effort , the book is good and come to me so fast


Amazing reference
This book is not for the organic students of introduction. It is a review condensed with a certain explanation for an enormous number of organic reactions synthetically useful. It explains exactly the EC what it has need, with diagrams so necessary. This book was extremely useful in my organic classes of level graduated.


good book with attactive price
This fourth edition does not have any great difference with the new fifth release. However, the price is only half. It is a good purchase for me.


good organic chemistry book
it is the handbook in the department of chemistry. It is good but will be better if it have more contents in substance of organométal.


Really good books
Both A and B part are very good reference book for organic chemistry graduate student. It is worth to have one if you want to open your career in organic chemistry


Strong Organic Text
I thought that the book was clear and interesting. It explained the reactions in sufficient detail for the first graduate level organic class I took.

My only complaint was that there was no answer guide. The answers are given as literature references, necessitating that you go look them up. When you are assigned 30 of his problems, that's not a trivial task, especially when some of the journals are esoteric. Also, finding the journal isn't enough, as often the journal citation has nothing to do with the problem. The "answer molecule" might just appear somewhere in that article.

And then, to add insult to injury, there are errors in the citations.

It's a great reference, but I wish that the problems in the book had more readily available answers.


My synthesis prof. slams this text on a regular basis!
I forgot to enter the number of stars field; Amazon automatically put 5, and I cannot edit this out. The text deserves 2 or 3 stars. This text was required for my graduate course in reactions at Florida State University. I went on to take my advanced synthesis course, which requires references for all synthetic transformations. Naturally, it seemed easy to reference the Carey and Sundberg text for the more basic steps. Even there, my professor took issue with many of the topics we covered in class with reference to this text. He said he was going to put this on his list of "texts not to buy..." I respect this professor highly, therefore I take it seriously that he disapproves ot it. I wish I would have just begun with a more up to date book without the errors or misrepresentations. On the plus side, this book is well organized and has a good index. However, I wish it came in a hard back; mine is falling apart.


Good Book
I study the organic chemistry with Trondheim Norway, and we employ this book in one of our classes. I think that it is a good book, but it is too detailed some times. We have almost the whole book to learn for the summer from befor from examination, and too many details makes it harder for reading, but you learn how to take what is most important. In a general way it is a good book to learn the organic synthesis.


good one for synthesis
very good book for synthesis. the book condition is also very good.


Excellent
It was one of the fastest delliveries, and it book was in excellent conditions.


best organic text there is
You cant find a better organic text book out there at this point. You will be very impresed with its detailed explainations.


Excellent Textbook with Lowest Price, ever
As an organic major graduate, I strongly recommend this book. Plus, the price is really acceptable. Great Deal!


Unimpressive
I've had a number of upper level courses. This (and part B) may be good for undergrads taking an advanced course but not for grad school. There are a number of errors and important subjects are glossed over or not covered at all. The best part of either of these books are the questions at the end of the chapters. There are lots and lots of questions. If you need it for a class, I'm sorry, if you're looking for a comprehensive advanced organic textbook, get the latest edition of March's book.


Had it for a couse, it wasnt as good as others
I had an organic course of improvement in the university for which it was the text. I do not know really what was erroneous with the book specifically, but I often employed other sources instead of this book. This book is definitly numerically directed, treats the mroe physical chemistry that organic, I think. There are the better organic books outside there.


Course on Organic Synthesis
Carey and Sundberg had written the account more detailed and briliant in the subject of the organic chemistry. This volume with part A (structure and mechanisms) contribute to the account most updated in avançée organic chemistry. The part B treats organic reactions with the accent on consequences stereochemical. The discussion concentrates on the most important reactions and methods in the modern organic synthesis. The alkylation of the nucleophilic carbon intermediaries discuss the regioselectivity and the stereoselectivity in the formation of enolate. The insurance on the alkylation of enolate is excellent which underlines on the model which envisages the stereochemistry of alkylation. The discussion also presents the model of Ireland and the model of Zimmerman-Traxler. The reaction of the carbon nucleophiles with the groups carbonylic concentrates on some of the most significant reactions: Reaction of Mannich, mixed aldol reaction, reaction of Wittig and reaction of Horner-Wadsworth-Emmon. The discussion still concentrates on the order of regiochemistry and the stereochemistry of condensation via the use of the states of transition from chair. The best sections in this volume of the part B of the book is the complete detailed discussion on the reduction and oxidation, the reagents of reduction and the methods presented include hydrogenation, givers of hydride, stereoselective reduction of hydride, various reductions of dissolution out of metal. The chapter of oxidation summerizes all important methods like transition-metal oxidant, the reagents of Collins, the epoxydation, the reagents peroxidic, the ozonolyse, and the selective oxidation of certain functional groups. The revised edition of the part B also includes the full discussion on reactions implying metals and the organobore of transition, organosilicium, and the compounds of organotine. This includes some of the most updated matters and most current of research. Other covered matters include the reaction of the intermediaries reactive like carbocations, carbenes, and radicals. In conclusion, a chapter is devoted to the cycloadditions, the resequencings unimoléculaires, and thermal eliminations. The final chapter treats the multi-step organic synthesis of planning with a emphase on the analysis retrosynthetic. This book made the synthesis organic accessible and easier to include/understand.


Magnificient in its own essence
I found this book extremely easy to read and makes a great addition to the library owned by an organic chemist. Certainly, this book deserves much attention and I believe that it describes many concepts in a simpler manner when comparison to Jerry March's book is called upon. The book is well-written and is exactly what undergraduate students interested in organic chemistry need to read if they want to expand their knowledge of the field without getting into a complex text right away. Definitively, I recommend this book in the shelf of any practicing and non-practicing chemist.


A White Pages of Organic Chemistry
Overall, I didn't much enjoy reading this book, as its style is basically to present one reaction after another. I did learn a lot, however. I think the book would be helped by having some unifying strategy of synthesis presented. I read Warren's _Organic Synthesis: the Disconnection Approach_ along with this one and it helped a great deal with getting a grasp of the big picture of organic synthesis.


Strong graduate-level text
While a little dated (1990), it is nevertheless a complete overall picture of the organic synthesis adapted with the students preparing a licence of higher level or with the students graduated in organic chemistry. With the difference of work of reference like March, it is more than one handbook - however, a good number of references (with few errors) are provided. With part "A" of the series and a work reference-directed such as March, it provides a base and a point entrance full to the literature for the students avançés with the organic chemistry.



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