Organic Chemistry

I have been a university professor for over 30 years. I bought the first edition of McMurry's Organic Chemistry and loved it. It has become thicker and it has many more pages than that first edition, but of course it covers many more topics. This book has been my personal favorite over the years. Other OC textbooks that I like are Fox and Whitesell's and Bruice's. The one I don't particularly care for is Vollhardt's: too much stuff crammed in the book and a writing style that doesn't make it very easy for students to follow. It's fine as a reference, but in my opinion it's not that great for those who have to study directly from the book. But of course you may disagree with me! At any rate, I think that McMurry's OC is a fantastic book. Period.

This is such a wonderful and very helpful tool for doing well in organic chemistry as it helped me a lot when I took two semesters of organic chemistry, as well as did the solutions manual for the textbook and do purchase the textbook and solutions manual together as both are a must in order to be successful in organic I and II! There were a few instances within certain chapters of the text that could have been just a bit more specific while providing just a little bit more detail, is my only other feedback and/or comment that I would like to add on and point out. Thank you so much for this wonderful resource along with the solutions manual that goes with this textbook!

I'm very happy with my purchase! Thank you!

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This book singlehandedly gave me an A in Orgo. Great purchase!

If you have to use this textbook, I'd recommend getting the Klein Organic Chemistry textbook too. I often would use the Klein textbook to help me solve problems in McMurry because I think the information is organized a bit better in Klein. I really hate that McMurry doesn't use line drawings for long carbon chains, but that's my personal preference.

The textbook i received is very good according to the description. I am satisfied.

Just as good as new, like the hand-me-down textbooks used in high school. Will definitely consider getting more textbooks from this distributer :)

25 years ago, I was learning organic chemistry from a Boyd and Morrioson textbook. I've always wanted to read a McMurry's book. I'm doing this now for intellectual entertainment during the lockdown. Even complicated issues have been explained in a very accessible way. Despite the fact that I have not had contact with chemistry for over 20 years, everything is understandable to me

great quality

Excellent book covering many topics in a very organized manner.

Absolutely needed for the class I'm in. The book was brand new, I even got to crack the spine!