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Organic Chemistry
by Joseph M. Hornback
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Brooks Cole (1998-07-30)
ISBN: 0534363466
EAN: 9780534363468
Dewy Decimal #: 547
Hardcover: 1440 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 092608014
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: lots of highlighting...minor wear on cover
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
With this book's uniquely practical organization by type of mechanism, you can help your students better understand and organize many reactions, and at the same time, form a more coherent picture of organic chemistry. Without going into mechanistic details and subtleties that would confuse students, Hornback uses mechanisms simply as an organizing framework. Presenting all the reactions that fall under a particular mechanism helps your students think conceptually about similarities and differences in groups of reactions and greatly enhances their ability to remember individual reactions.
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Customer Reviews
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one-star
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-10-24
0 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This was the wrong book. I e-mailed the seller to make an exchange and I never got a reply. So I basically wasted the money spent on this book.
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Excellent Book for Undergraduates
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hornback's organic chemistry text is by far the most concise and clear textbook I have ever used for any chemistry course in college. After introducing new concepts, ample practice problems are provided throughout the discussion to help the student stay on track and test her knowledge. The illustrations are also excellent and Hornback encourages the student to use models, which is extremely helpful in the beginning of organic chemistry.
Unlike many science textbooks that drown the reader in confusing detail, Hornback offers the perfect amount of detail in his discussions. The problems at the end of the chapters, ranging from easy-difficult are also extremely helpful to master the material.
Hornback makes an allegedly difficult subject easy to master, presenting the information in a logical manner.
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An excellent introductory text
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-12-16
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I used Hornback's 2nd edition for my introductory organic chemistry courses and found the text to be excellent, and often surpassing the in-class instruction I recieved from my professor. If you are an undergraduate student taking organic chemistry I would recommend this text above all others. I often refer to it as a reference now that I am taking advanced organic chemistry. If you read the this text, you will do well in your course regardless of the calibre of instruction you are recieving.
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Hornback is the best!
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-03-14
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is by far one of the best texts for undergraduate organic chemistry! The explanations are clear and concise, and ideas and concepts are well-organized. The book is easy to follow and the problems, both within and at the ends of the chapters, make the concepts crystal clear.
I used an earlier edition of this textbook and solutions manual when I took organic chemistry (2000-2001), and it (and some great professors) made the class easier and enjoyable. Having encountered other textbooks at other schools, I am grateful that the chemistry department at my alma mater uses this text. I am an organic chemistry TA now, and wish my students were using this book!
Bottom line, I sing the book's praises every chance I get! It's a bit expensive brand-new, but worth every penny!
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4.5 STARS --Say goodbye to Morrison and McMurry?
Rating  (4)
Date: 1998-06-24
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
A mechanistic approach to learning organic chemistry seems to make a whole lot more sense than memorizing/regurgitating the slew of reactivities available for each functional group along the way. Why then do we not have a text which allows us to do this? A few authors in the past have attempted to construct a text which views organic chemistry from a mechanistic (rather than funtional-group)standpoint, but none have been able to offer something an UNDERGRADUATE could embrace. Hornback has clearly and logically presented this often intimidating subject here, and should be praised for hurdling the barrier to offer the first readable mechanism-oriented text.
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