Best book to understand orgo???

[Dr. Josh]

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Please recommend a book to help me understand orgo. I'm desperate, but will have limited time, so please tell me the very best book there is.

 

[Laypahoo]

I don't think there is a really good organic chemistry book. I used Organic Chemistry by Wade 5th edition. It seemed pretty good to me.

If you don't mind me asking why the hurry?

 

[Disinence2]

whatever book your professior recomends, afterall they write the test. In terms of the MCAT, the princton review book taught me all the O chem i knew, and i did alright. Unless u want a 15 i think u'll be fine

 

[TPROrgoTutor2]

Your O-Chem textbook?

 

[hermit]

I never understood why people always post this question. I completely agree with Disinence2. Use the book your teacher told you to use...because that's where your tests will be coming from.

 

[FullTiltMD]

bruice is also good.

 

[DrMT]

I don't think there is a really good organic chemistry book. I used Organic Chemistry by Wade 5th edition. It seemed pretty good to me.

i agree. i had wade's 6th edition and it was pretty good at explaining ochem... although somethings were a little ambiguous... but i think that's just how ochem 1 is.

 

[byong_soo]

organic chemistry by volhardt is pretty good

 

[kaybam20]

bruice is also good.

I think the orgo book by Paula Yukanis bruise is the best by anybody's standard.this from someone who rad more than five different textbook for orgo. excellent explanation, clear presentation and active engagement of the reader are the three main resasons why i think her book is the best.

 

[karakhanyan]

Honestly? Organic Chemistry for Dummies. No book has ever explained the subject in such a simple way. The only problem is that it does not go that deep into the subject, but it is good otherwise. 😛

 

[Dr. Josh]

I never understood why people always post this question. I completely agree with Disinence2. Use the book your teacher told you to use...because that's where your tests will be coming from.

My prof sucked and never offered any help. Of course there was a textbook for the course but i wanted something beyond that when i failed to understand that (or his useless lectures). I am going to retake the course in the summer and I want a helpful aid; also want to try to learn some of it and orgo 2 on my own until then.

 

[oct93ranger]

Try "The Nuts and Bolts of Organic Chemistry" by Joel Karty. A great read, and it should only take a few days. It may seem like a lot at first; however, by the end of it you become really familiarized with the trends that dictate organic chemistry.

 

[cagey]

Pushing Electrons is a good supplement. It's a workbook and it will clear your fundmentals quite nicely.

 

[foofish]

Pushing Electrons is a good supplement. It's a workbook and it will clear your fundmentals quite nicely.

Agree--it was actually a required text for my Orgo I class.

The Organic Chemistry as a Second Language books are also helpful...there's one for each semester of orgo.

 

[msundi83]

High Yield Organic Chemistry

They also have a physics version too. I used the Ochem one for the MCAT and to prepare for the comprehensive standardized final we had at the end of second semester in Ochem II. Really, some profs honestly hate the book they use. My physics prof was an example of this. He never based his questions off the text (or really even his notes) when test time came. I think the best thing to do is try to be taught concepts from several different sources. Whenever I didn't understand a concept in Wade or from my prof I would check the internet or another source and eventually I would find it explained to me in a better way. We are all wired differently in how we understand concepts, Ochem is hard regardless, but this method worked for me.

 

[mdthisyear]

Organic Chemistry by John C. McMurry is a good read.

 

[Mortal_Lessons]

Organic Chemistry by John C. McMurry is a good read.

It's the best!

 

[BellyDancingDoc]

Pushing Electrons is a good supplement. It's a workbook and it will clear your fundmentals quite nicely.

I second this. Pushing Electrons totally changed my Beginner Orgo life.

 

[powerful_squib]

organic chemistry by volhardt is pretty good

yeah...right... bruice is a whole lot better...

...but i could be wrong since my professor;s notes correlated to the bruice book not the volhardt book, bc they decided to change our book this year...

oh and get "organic chemistry as a second language" I heard that was really good.

 

[UBC-Guy]

I agree with the McMurray text. Used it last semester for my orgo class and it was reasonably good.