(Part 2) Best chemistry books according to redditors
We found 1,043 Reddit comments discussing the best chemistry books. We ranked the 483 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
33. Organotransition Metal Chemistry: From Bonding to Catalysis
4 mentions
Used Book in Good Condition
If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
Chemistry has some expensive textbooks (each separate word is its own link)
For pleasure:
Undergraduate
Organic Chemistry as a Second Language, The art of writing reasonable organic reaction mechanisms
Graduate
Don't know about skills you want, but there's quite a bit of free chemical software that it'd be good to be familiar with (Avogadro for building ligands/small molecules, Chimera for supramolecular and docking, etc.). Likewise, if you have access to WebMO, play around with it. The questions you develop while just trying different theories/basis sets with the same compound will lead you into a better understanding of what computational can (or can't) do. Molecular dynamics is a popular approach to protein (and thus biological) simulations. If you've never operated a computer from the command line before, there's a Codecademy course that has a good overview on that.
Google and Wikipedia can be your best friends. Most of my understanding came from seeing something discussed in a paper and researching what it was and why it was useful. This presentation gives a lot of background for theories and where they came from. This site has a nice introduction to semiempirical quantum calculations. I found this site when trying to understand what basis sets were, and it was very informative.
If you want a book, Essentials of Computational Chemistry is pretty widely used in computational courses.
Hope this helped a little bit!
This is an excellent book to get you familiar with the basic concepts:
https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Second-Language-Semester/dp/1118144341
Can find it as a PDF on Libgen
I took an undergraduate class called "History and Philosophy of Science (Chemistry)", but that involved multiple books.
I'd recommend you start with a popular science novel such as Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History.
The Chemical Tree by Bock and The History of Chemistry by John Hudson are more academic history texts of the development of chemistry. To read and understand these books you probably need to be a chemist yourself. They are more targeted towards teaching a class.
Classics in Total Synthesis: Targets, Strategies, Methods Paperback
by K. C. Nicolaou
http://www.amazon.com/Classics-Total-Synthesis-Targets-Strategies/dp/3527292314
Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach Paperback – December
by Stuart Warren
http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Synthesis-The-Disconnection-Approach/dp/0470712368
And the best collection of total synthesis what is found on the internet: http://chemistrybydesign.oia.arizona.edu/app.php
There's a book titled "Chemical Applications of Group Theory"
https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Applications-Group-Theory-3rd/dp/0471510947
First of all, I loved Harris's book.
Secondly, take a look at Skoog, Holler and Crouch's Principles of Instrumental Analysis.
Tip: It's not worth buying at its current price ($258). It should be available in good condition in your department's library.
Cotton's "Chemical Applications to Group Theory" is pretty much the basis for all undergraduate classes that teach group theory. It's expensive though, and probably not the first book you'll want to read on the subject.
I would recommend Bertolucci's "Symmetry and Spectroscopy". It has a lot of great info, and is only $15.
Some good online sources (not all notes are about group theory, so pick and choose what will help you):
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/5-04-principles-of-inorganic-chemistry-ii-fall-2008/lecture-notes/
http://chemistry.caltech.edu/courses/ch112/syllabus.html
Under "Symmetry in Chemistry"
You should also have a working knowledge of matrix algebra. If you want to look into the subject deeper, a good understanding of linear algebra will help.
Bard and Faulkner
J.F. Cornwell, Group theory in physics: an introduction (link)
W. Ludwig, Symmetries in physics: group theory applied to physical problems(link)
M. Tinkham, Group theory and quantum mechanics (link)
W.-K. Tung, Group theory in physics (link)
E.P. Wigner, Group theory and its applications to the quantum mechanics of atomic spectra (link1, link2)
N. Jeevanjee, An Introduction to Tensors and Group Theory for Physicists (link)
G. Costa, Symmetries and Group Theory in Particle Physics: An Introduction to Space-Time and Internal Symmetries (link)
B. Hall, Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations: An Elementary Introduction (link)
R. McWeeny, Symmetry: An Introduction to Group Theory and Its Applications (Dover Books on Physics)(link)
Weyl's symmetry is what you're looking for. The next step up from this would require some group theory, since mathematicians interested in symmetry usually study symmetry groups of objects or spaces. I have not read it but this book looks like a good next read, at least the first four(ish) chapters. Another possibility is Armstrong's book, though I'm not familiar with this book either.
These two books helped me through Ochem: Organic Chemistry as a Second Language Vol. 1 and Vol 2. The guy also has a very good text book that comes with an absolutely ENORMOUS answer book that has every single problem in the textbook mapped out. I don't recommend the Wiley Plus/Orion online homework system thing, but these are great resources.
I think more than just an issue with simplicity or difficulty this is a matter or feasibility. A grad student could easily get their dissertation doing this project for just one molecule. However if you're serious about this let me give you some advice.
Here are some books and resources that will catch you up McQuarrie, Cramer, Marcus Theory, and all things Mukamel for electron transfer.
Good luck!
[EDIT]: As far as temperature goes, that's a concern more so for the effects on a classical level, so you need a MD or semi-empirical system with a good forcefield defined.
Sure you can. Here is a link to a book on it You could also build your own lab if you aren't worried about someone else telling you that you know something. You could spend the $200,000 you otherwise would have spent on tuition on funding your own research, which is more than most research grants are.
MIT is better because they have a lab? Sounds like charging for equipment. Why don't they just say that? Are their experts better because they're at MIT or is MIT better because their experts are there? If these same experts worked at a community college would they be less respected? Would the community college be more respected?
This is the magic of marketing and you are eating it up.
EDIT:
You can also do MIT's coursework on organic chemistry for free.
Here is one example.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1118452283/ref=zg_bs_13585_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VCMYW999Z6FXG30J70WM
From which background are you asking this? Because from a chemistry point of view this seems like a silly question because the knowledge growths and changes each day.
From the perspective of an interested citizen with the goal of an broad education a single good general chemistry book like Zumdahl/Chemistry contains enough knowledge about chemistry for a lifetime.
If you want to build a doomsday proof bible of chemical knowledge or want to bolster your library as a scientist from another scientific branch like biology or physics you could alsocome quite close to capturing the most important knowledge. For this approach I would take the existing "bibles" for subtopics of chemistry like organic chemistry like Bruise/Organic Chemistry. I would at least take specific books from organic, inorganic, physical, analytical chemistry aswell as biochemistry. Most of these bibles have 1000+ pages so this "book" with 6000+ pages could maybe contain something like 50% of the knowledge about chemistry by todays standards.
David Klein also has a full textbook out this year. My prof uses it and I find it even better than organic chemistry as a second language. Obviously since it's a full textbook + answer manuel it will run you a fair bit more.
Them, plus Janeway's Immunobiology, Carey and Sundberg's Advanced Organic Chemistry part A and part B, Anslyn's PhysOrg, Ptashne's A Genetic Switch, Gilbert's Developmental Biology, Fersht's Structure and Mechanism in Protein Science and the NEB Catalog form a reference shelf for Biochem/Chemical Biology that I don't suspect will need updating for another decade or two.
EDIT: Except, of course, for switching out the NEB catalog every year for the new edition.
Following-up on the blog/book suggestion, if you don't have examples in mind, here is one from a medicinal chemist, Derek Lowe. His blog, and his book. (I don't know the guy personally). It's not quite wetlands... but you might find it interesting nonetheless.
barron's review book is good, it's also the only one I have ever used so I can't actually give a fair comparison to others.
Zumdahl & Zumdahl is a very excellent textbook (not review book). I borrowed this textbook off my Chem H teacher and read it over the weekend before the test and got a 5 (didn't take the ap chem class). It can probably be used as an alternate to a review book
For organic chemistry, Vogel’s practical organic chemistry:
https://www.amazon.com/Vogels-Textbook-Practical-Organic-Chemistry/dp/0582462363
On the contrary. You can buy Chemistry.
John Hartwig's "Organotransition metal chemistry: from bonding to catalysis" (https://www.amazon.com/Organotransition-Metal-Chemistry-Bonding-Catalysis/dp/189138953X)
If you have never taken college level chem courses (or don't remember them clearly) I highly recommend picking up a cheap used copy of this:
https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chem-Lab-Survival-Manual/dp/1118083393
It will show you how to carry out all the basic procedures you will need to know, and it is written in a way that is actually really fun to read. I think even someone who hates chemistry could appreciate this book
This book is a good introduction to group theory and representations. It specifically has sections devoted to crystallographic groups.
This is a great practical book on working in an orgainic laboratory. He's added a bit of humor, too, and makes for an interesting read. It helped me through organic lab.
The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual: A Student's Guide to Techniques
Along with Engel/Reid the course I took required Applied Mathematics for Physical Chemistry which you can find used for pretty cheap. It gives you a basic rundown of mathematical concepts with examples relating to phys chem. Of course, if your school does pchem in the same sequence as mine (2 semesters intro pchem, quantum, and then spectroscopy), you'll only need multivariable calculus (cal 3) for the first 2 semesters. Differential equations is needed (and should be taken before) quantum.
Cotton's Chemical Applications of Group Theory is a decent resource.
In short, the symmetry of a state is the direct product of the irreducible representations of all of the orbitals occupied in that state. A full orbital only contributes the totally symmetric representation because the direct product of any irreducible representation with itself is the totally symmetric rep. Because of that fact, you only have to really take the direct product of the partially full orbitals to determine the symmetry of a state.
This web page also has some useful information about the octahedral group, including the product tables.
Here are my top three textbook choices:
This is a great book for how to actually do organometallic syntheses. I've followed several procedures in the book, and they work well / are quite descriptive.
I''ve taken two organometallic courses that use Crabtree. So I think this is a great book to learn organometallics. Definitely more organometallic than Miessler and Tarr.
A few of my friends have the new Hartwig book which looks awesome. I haven't read it yet, but in my opinion its going to surpass Crabtree as the textbook of choice for organometallics classes in the next few years.
https://smile.amazon.com/Chemical-Tree-History-Chemistry-Science/dp/0393320685?sa-no-redirect=1
Your best and safest bet is always buying a textbook and it's solution manual and just go through the book and do the problems
I recommend chemistry by zumdahl, it's a bit expensive but you can always rent and and pay a lot less
Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1133611095/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1407886305&sr=8-3&pi=SY200_QL40
Solutions: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1133611990/ref=pd_aw_sims_1?pi=SL500_SY115&simLd=1
You might be able to find cheaper solutions manual, you just have to look around
Also this book I recommended is slightly higher than a level you asked for but you will definitely master high school level chem plus a lot more interesting stuff through this book
My p-chem professor recommended a book called Applied Mathematics to help with the math in the course. I haven't needed to use it just yet but I skimmed through it and it looks like a huge help. Maybe try that?
Edit: spelling
By "expensive calculation", I meant DFT. A semiempirical method such as PM6, PM3, AM1, ZINDO, etc. is much, much quicker to run and can often get you a good starting geometry for a DFT calculation. You'll need to use your eyeballs for this part though.
You usually want the best basis set you can afford. In this case, you want it to include d and f angular momentum functions to properly describe the wavefunction at the cobalt. A small basis set like 3-21G will not work. However, 6-311+G(d,p) is too costly and may fail; even though it has higher angular momentum functions, the '+' means a set of diffuse functions has been added. This will result in orbitals that are quite large but "fuzzy", potentially causing false overlap of orbitals between atoms. It's important for many anions, but unnecessary here. Something intermediate like 6-31G(d) might be acceptable for a geometry.
If you want to learn more, I highly recommend this book, this book, and maybe most of all this book, depending on how much modeling you're required to do.
That is great that you love to read, one of the greatest gifts my tbm parents ever gave me. If you want something that will help give a better perspective on ST I would recommend The Problem with Physics by Lee Smolin. He worked in ST and has since moved onto other areas (he's also very nice if you ever get the chance to meet him), but this book is written such than a lay person can read and mostly understand what he talks about.
To get to ST at the level you can do something meaningful with it you'll need a solid calculus, partial differential equations, linear algebra, abstract algebra (mostly the ideas of groups, double groups, and certain Lie algebras), and topology background (you can usually find books on these topics that are geared toward physicists as not everything mathematicians care about is needed for the physics side). For the physics you should have, though it's not absolutely needed just useful for certain ideas, classical mechanics and electromagnetism. You'll need the basic QM, there's a good Intro to QM by David Griffiths, but you'll need calculus down to tackle this. You'll also need special and general relativity. Essentially a physics degree with a large emphasis in mathematics. Probably not what you wanted to hear.
If you're interested in this area, I would highly recommend not focusing on ST (others may say differently) but rather on QM in general. There are many facets of it at that are fascinating and a lot we still don't know. Not only that, but finding ever better ways to solve the fundamental equations is where a lot of work is also being done which is non-trivial and I find quite interesting as well.
Another area in this field (no pun intended) where more work needs to be done is scientific writing about these topics for a more general audience. This requires knowledge about the topics but also an ability to communicate them to those that may not have the same background (something scientists are not always that great at doing). I'm not sure if that would be of interest to you, though. I also have interests, myself, in the more recent history of QM and the various developments in the field, as this is not as well documented (I'm talking about the more obscure side paths that most people don't usually hear about even though they can have tremendous impacts later down the road).
None exist. But if you must, Cotton's book is obviously top notch.
Alternatively, one taught from a math perspective might be good.
https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Applications-Group-Theory-3rd/dp/0471510947
Vogels book on practical organic chemistry is a bit more expensive than I had expected, but can be bought at amazon for $195, and I'll bet that it contains a shitload more information.
For computational chemistry:
You will need to have a solid understanding of Quantum Chemistry. The two commonly used books for this is the following...
Quantum Chemistry: 6th ed. by Levine
Modern Quantum Chemistry by Szabo.
Honestly don't worry too much about the newest edition of Levine. I've been using the 5th edition and not much has changed. Szabo is published by Dover so its dirt cheap.
For actual computational chemistry, Cramer does a decent job.
I don't believe he's made a book of his 'Things I won't work with,' which is a real shame, but he did put together a more serious Chemistry book aimed at teaching the history of the field to non chemists. I bought it after reading his blog posts, and I thought it was well worth a read. Not as focused on humor, but the same good writing.
I used McWeeny in my graduate Group Theory course. Not sure if there's a pdf floating around, but you can get it for under $10. It was a rather good introduction. Another mentioned Dresselhaus, which I've heard good things from as well.
You could try Collman's book, http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Applications-Organotransition-Metal-Chemistry/dp/0935702512 that was sort of the classic for a long time, but of course it's missing the past 20 years or so of progress.
Hartwig's more recent text book http://www.amazon.com/Organotransition-Metal-Chemistry-Bonding-Catalysis/dp/189138953X/ is sort of supposed to be the successor to Collman's book but it's extremely dense and a bit hard to just sit down and read.
This book http://www.amazon.com/Synthesis-Organometallic-Compounds-Practical-Inorganic/dp/0471970700 could be fun for you if your library has it.
Another classic: http://www.amazon.com/Problems-Solutions-Organometallic-Chemistry-Kegley/dp/0935702237 that one's fun to go through.
In all cases if you find examples, etc that are interesting to you, go to the references and read the original paper!
I would also definitely recommend starting to follow relevant published research, the ACS journal "Organometallics" being an obvious starting point (http://pubs.acs.org/journal/orgnd7)
I have a book called "Applied Mathematics in Physical Chemistry" by James R. Barrante. It is a comprehensive review and most of its examples are motivated by chemical problems. However, don't use it to teach yourself calculus -- use it to brush up on the calculus in context.
It also teaches matrices, vectors, etc. (Again, in context, but it should not be used for the first time you meet the topic.)
I highly recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Symmetry-Spectroscopy-Introduction-Vibrational-Electronic/dp/048666144X
My inorganic professor recommended it when I took the course and it was a great investment.
Video:
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KfheXm7DlU&list=PLqOZ6FD_RQ7nqVjmYjBSZOkjln_K31ATj
Textbook:
https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Janice-Gorzynski-Smith/dp/0078021553/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1538341182&sr=8-11&keywords=Organic+Chemistry
https://www.amazon.com/Vogels-Textbook-Practical-Organic-Chemistry/dp/0582462363/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538341219&sr=8-1&keywords=vogel%27s+textbook+of+practical+organic+chemistry
The UCI video course seems to follow Janice's OChem book chapter by chapter so you can follow along while watching the video courses. They also have advanced OChem courses posted on their YT channel .
If you're learning about this stuff for the first time now, then you should probably get this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organic-Chemistry-Second-Language-Semester/dp/1118144341/ref=dp_ob_title_bk.
You should definitely buy it, as that's, you know, the morally correct thing to do, but there are other ways to obtain it online...
The basic concepts and rationale behind the mechanisms are explained really clearly, and there are problems throughout and at the end of each chapter to help consolidate your understanding of it all. Would highly recommend it.
Smith book?
Leroy book?
If you read and understood all of EJ Corey's books, then I think you should be all set for grad school.
If you are really interested in more to read, try "Advanced Organic Chemistry" by Carey.
AOC - Part A
AOC - Part B
Best of luck!
This one?
Whatever software you are using will have documentation on how to run calculations and interpret the output. That will be the most practical source for what you are doing. For more info on the DFT method, any computation chemistry book will do. Cramer and Jensen are popular, but I've heard this monograph is great too.
I had a brief but exciting stint working in an electrochemistry lab and have spent some time reading about various topics in electrochemistry such as batteries, photovoltaics, and semiconductor materials. It seemed to me the gold standard in electrochemistry textbooks was Bard - it is still a goal of mine to save up the money to purchase the latest edition (though if you are savvy you can probably find a pdf online).
Another book that I've found interesting and thorough is Gretchen Bakke's The Grid . This book discusses the evolution of the American electric grid and the challenges that come with integrating various renewable technologies.
Lastly, if you are into batteries - check out flow batteries. I'm unnecessarily into flow batteries... especially ESS, Inc's All Iron Flow Battery . Energy storage is something that could change our future... I'd like to work in this field someday as well. Hopefully some of what I shared is valuable!
I learned GT from this book. Very focused on solid state physics.
This is also quite good.
There are a few books, such as The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action by Silverman (a medicinal chemistry textbook) and Classics in Total Synthesis by Nikolaou and Sorenson that would be very specific things. Silverman is very what are inhibitors, what does LD50/ED50 actually mean, SAR analysis, combi-chem, etc. Nikolaou and Sorsenson cover the classic synthesis of things such as erythronolide B, progesterone, strychnine and cocaine (the inactive enantiomer, of course).
There are obviously other resources, but I do really appreciate these texts as they are a part of my personal library.
Source: I have a BS in medicinal chemistry and am a PhD candidate in chemistry (focus in bio-organic for drug design)
I highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131008455/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It really saved me when I took physical chemistry after only having taken Calc 1.
There’s a really good one published by Wiley called Essentials of Computational Chemistry. I work in a comp chem lab and this book is still extremely relevant and serves as a great reference imo. If you really really want to get into the theory of MD check out this set of lecture notes. http://fy.chalmers.se/~tfsgw/CompPhys/lectures/MD_LectureNotes_181111.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Computational-Chemistry-Theories-Models/dp/0470091827
> What happens if the crystal is not cubic? I assume the circular dichroism cancels in some way, but why?
Cubic crystals tend not to alleviate the degeneracy of the M_J quantum numbers (I'm just talking about atomic transitions here, not crystal states or molecular states). There are situations where imperfections cause symmetry breaking that leads to alleviation of degeneracy, but not in a perfect crystal. This only applies to insulators by the way. If you have a metallic crystal, free currents in the metal can cause circular dichroism.
> In what way do things get complicated, exactly?
You can have chiral molecules, but floating in solution their relative orientations are random. As a result circular dichroism is not measurable in the ensemble unless you can cause macroscopic alignment of the molecules (like in a chiral nematic liquid crystal).
Also, it's complicated because molecular wavefunctions are not as intuitive as atomic wavefunctions. It's tough to figure out whether a molecule will exhibit certain optical properties without doing molecular orbital calculations. Though, group theory can give you a reasonable intuition for many cases.
> Are there any handles I could use to understand things better?
This is a pretty complex topic that requires an understanding of quantum mechanics and group theory. I didn't fully understand all of this until the last year of my Ph.D. You should take some classes in condensed and soft matter, for starters.
There are some books I guess I could recommend:
As for what keywords to use in a literature seach. I couldn't tell you. There are quite a few situations that lead to circular dichroism which require different physics to understand. Without knowing exactly what domain you are working in and the details of what you are trying to do, I can only suggest you look for "circular dichroism" on google scholar.
I posted a comment a while ago describing, in detail, my workflow for understanding a topic. Maybe it will help you figure out what you are trying to figure out.
Kleins White textbook + Kleins 2nd language
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118452283/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687722&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0470917806&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=EHJQCYJJTFNF6QACK8F7
I loved Principles of Instrumental Analysis by Skoog et al.
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Applied Mathematics for Physical Chemistry by James R. Barrante, has pretty much everything you're asking for.
link
Yes, that's a very good book to read.
I think something like Classics in Total Synthesis would also be a good introduction to a bunch of reactions and the art/science/whatever of advanced synthesis to a budding Organic Chemist. I'd say it a bit less dry than your standard textbook too, but I may be biased there. You can almost definitely rent it at a university library. If you don't want to do that, there are tons of reviews that have similar themes.
But if you have tons of time during a summer, the best thing to do would be to get involved in research. You might even just sit in on some group's group meetings if you live near a research university. And then ask to be more involved.
http://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Book-Gunpowder-Graphene-Milestones/dp/1454911808
Derek Lowe's "Chemistry Book!" Great example of good science writing, covers topics of historical and scientific interest, and would introduce your student to one of the most influential chemistry writer in the world right now. And his best work is free online!
> organic chemistry book for .50
If it's this one, you can trade it in for $29.53 credit, free shipping. This one will net you $30.48. This one will net you $35.97. And this one will net you $39.87.
Always check www.amazon.com/tradein - you'll save on fees, shipping, and time.
With textbooks I would sell ASAP, because new editions come out every year or every few years.
A good upper-level undergraduate textbook with plenty of practice problems is Symmetry and Spectroscopy: An Introduction to Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy by Daniel C. Harris and Michael D. Bertolucci. This book is pretty thorough in its explanations, so if you work through it start to finish, it may help you better grasp some areas that are currently not clear.
Behold, the greatest textbook I read in college. David Klein's Organic Chemistry was the single most important factor in me getting an A+ in organic chem 1 and 2.
I took the Chem 236 equivalent at my community college where this textbook was recommended. When I took 436 at UIUC, they recommend the Loudon textbook. It's shit. Don't read it. Klein literally holds your hand and walks you through each chapter with plenty of problem sets that force you to master one topic before you move onto the next one. The organization, the prose, the explanations, the problems sets, the figures...they're all just so beautiful. The reviews on this book are phenomenal. Compare the reviews to Loudon and you'll see how much of a different there is.
Buy this textbook with the accompanying solutions book (absolutely necessary no questions asked), and read through every page and do at least 80% of the questions. Draw out those mechanisms until your hand is bleeding. You'll be better off than most of your classmates. I guarantee it.
The example of a $400 textbook is not at all extreme. Consider Principals of instrument analysis, which is $381 new, $120 used, and the previous edition can be found for $9.
This is intended for junior and senior level chemistry students, and covers concepts that have been largely unchanged for the past few decades.
Are you correctly using td and tc glassware? web.centre.edu/che/che131_lab/volumetricGlassware.htm
I found this book helpful in college. It's very detailed. I think it has a section on ph probes. www.amazon.com/Organic-Chem-Lab-Survival-Manual/dp/1118083393/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406770734&sr=1-11&keywords=organic+laboratory+techniques
Several of the comments here have made me revisit my earlier studies and I'm going to quote straight out of my text to help clarify the issue:
"The factors that influence nucleophilicity are best assessed in the context of the limiting Sn2 mechanism, since it is here that the properties of the nucleophile are most important. the rate of an Sn2 reaction is directly related to the effectiveness of the nucleophile in displacing the leaving group. In contrast, the relative nucleophilicity has no effect on the rate of an Sn1 reaction.
Many properties have an influence on nucleophilicity. Those considered to be most significant are:
There are explanations in the book for each of the 5 sections, if people found this helpful I can post those as well. The text is Advance Organic Chemistry, 4th ed. by Carey and Sundberg. The newer version is available here.
http://www.amazon.com/Symmetry-Spectroscopy-Introduction-Vibrational-Electronic/dp/048666144X
This book does a great job explaining the methods for predicting active vibrations in IR and also has great stuff on electronic absorption spectroscopy.
Some excellent starting books for the above subjects is as follows:
Pre-Calculus by Cynthia Y. Young:
https://www.amazon.com/Precalculus-Cynthia-Y-Young/dp/0471756849
Provides an excellent summary of elementary Algebra up to starting concepts of calculus, such as the difference quotient, etc.
Campbell Biology (10th edition):
https://www.amazon.com/Campbell-Biology-10th-Jane-Reece/dp/0321775651/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483427728&sr=1-4&keywords=Biology
Covers pretty much every form of Biology you'll cover throughout your middle school/high school days, up to freshman year of university.
Chemistry 9th Edition: by Steven S. Zumdahl (Author), Susan A. Zumdahl (Author):
https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Steven-S-Zumdahl/dp/1133611095/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483427816&sr=1-12&keywords=Chemistry
A bit more complex, however once you've gained a grasp of Biology/Algebra, this is a fine novel illustrating all the workings of chemistry you'll cover throughout high-school-freshman year university.
That's all I can really recommend as of now. I'm inclined to believe you're 1-2 grades ahead of your peers, and it shouldn't be too long until you finish up basic arithmetic, and starting learning higher maths. If you intend to develop a higher understanding of these fields, seriously try these books out.
Despite their expense, if you can find a way to rent, study, and complete them, you're basically set til' college.
Also know that these books are the most recent editions of their respective categories: These books are used in a multitude of schools/universities, not just random textbooks delving into irrelevant subjects: Nearly everything encapsulated within them is pertinent.
Have a look at this book.
Turns out it was about 300 in our bookstore. The other books I had to get with it for the class would have been the other 100. Here is the actual book on amazon now.
http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Edition-Leroy-Wade/dp/0321768418
Jack,
Firstly, take a deep breath!
Secondly, regarding your statement in your post, yes I got an A in OChem 2 - it seemed impossible as I was as stressed as you are! What really helped me was doing practice problems out of Organic Chemistry as a Second Language (because it really is)! In addition to this, I combed google for any practice exams or quizzes related to the topics covered on the exam (i.e., googled Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Exam with Solutions) and went over those. For topics that I had a really hard time with, I researched for a conceptual understanding in addition to the mechanism (like why do the NMR spectropscopy present as they do, instead of memorizing where the peaks would come up) and made it a point to know that well in addition to the exam studying.
From reading your post, it sounds like your first professor was a conceptual teacher that then focused on the specific mechanisms (understanding the why and how to the mechanism). Your second professor seems like a mechanism writer, which I am sorry for as it does no justice to the beauty that is chemistry.
I hope this has helped!
Try part A of Carey & Sundberg, I highly recommend working each practice problem and reading the reference associated with each problem (there's a handy index in the back).
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Organic-Chemistry-Part-Mechanisms/dp/0387683461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419827941&sr=8-1&keywords=carey+sunberg
Hi, while your description of redox chemistry is good, it is necessary to include sources other than yourself for answers in /r/askscience. Bard and Faulkner or even wikipedia are sufficient for your redox equations and to explain what overpotential is.
$201 for Wade's Organic Chemistry, 8th edition on Amazon
Used ones are $180+
A new international copy can be had for under $70 on eBay.
Greenwood and Earnshaw Chemistry of the elements - This is pretty much prefect for main group chemistry.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chemistry-Elements-N-N-Greenwood/dp/0750633654/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345966730&sr=8-1
Atkins Physical - This is okay and pretty useful as it is full of questions. There's a smaller version called 'Elements of Physical Chemistry'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atkins-Physical-Chemistry-Peter/dp/0199543372/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345966803&sr=1-1
Clayden Organic Chemistry - A very good guide to organic chemistry, however the lack of questions in the new edition is a bit annoying.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organic-Chemistry-Jonathan-Clayden/dp/0199270295/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345967204&sr=1-2
Hartwig Organotransitional Metal Chemistry - Very good but goes a little beyond most chemistry degrees if not focussing on organometallic chemistry.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organotransition-Metal-Chemistry-Bonding-Catalysis/dp/189138953X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345967182&sr=1-1
For cheap and detailed books on a very specific subject the Oxford Chemistry Primers are extremely useful.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=oxford+chemistry+primers&x=0&y=0
I would rather refer you to bard : electrochemical methods and applications for more relevant definitions.
Here is a couple, the first two are Pop-sci and may be more of what you are looking for. The third is probably the most dense.
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https://www.amazon.com/Disappearing-Spoon-Madness-Periodic-Elements/dp/0316051632
http://home.theodoregray.com/bookproducts/the-elements-autographed-copy
https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Tree-History-Chemistry-Science/dp/0393320685/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=chemistry+history&qid=1574340632&sr=8-16
Zubrick's Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual was an awesome resource for me during my first semester of orgo. Much of the stuff in the school's own lab manuals was taken from this resource.
The Chemical Tree: A History of Chemistry is a very good history. Someone with no chemical training will be able to read the first handful of chapters, but most of it is written on a level where it really helps to know something about chemistry. The fact that it dedicates an entire chapter to the nonclassical ion controversy of the mid-to-late 20th century is my warning to the layman. If you're a chemist, however, it's a must-read.
I'm not sure how much background knowledge you have, but Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight by Atkins as well as Chemistry by Zumdahl are good general chemistry books (AP level and beyond). Zumdahl is probably better if your knowledge is starting from scratch, although I prefer Atkins.
Also, buy the older editions - they're a lot cheaper and are basically the same.
There's a lot of good questions in there. As far as determining the structure, that has changed a lot over the years. I suggest you read up on Woodward's cholesterol synthesis, or check out the book Classics in Total Synthesis for more detail into how these molecules are discovered and then synthesized. If you're at a university, that book should be available in the library.
Here is the mobile version of your link
Sorry Skoog A chem book. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0495012017?pc_redir=1412086803&robot_redir=1
Study "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language: Second semester topics".
http://amzn.com/1118144341
It's really great. I still scan through it from time to time.
At my college, this was actually offered to us when our chemistry professors decided to choose a new book. The publishers were nice enough to give us this luxury and it was a great book (Klein's Organic Chemistry).