We use McMurray. It might just be my professor (who publishes his own 250 page lecture notebook every semester), but I find that the book doesn't follow my course very well. Example - we just finished spectro. Lecture was incredibly detailed and the book treated all (MS/IR/NMR) as separate topics with no attempt to correlate interpretation. I think I bombed an exam today.
I also wish the McMurray end-of-chapter problems were different. I don't know what I want... Maybe if they were related more to the concept they're supposed to illustrate. And details are important for a study guide - they are often lacking in this case. Of course, my back is broken this semester carrying the damned things around - so I guess maybe more detail is not a good thing.
I find that I spend a lot of time searching for supplemental materials. I don't feel like I'm getting enough detail or something. Maybe it's just me...anyone wanna loan me their textbook? Or maybe it's just a tough class...
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