Reviews for Substituent Effects in Radical Chemistry

The average rating for Substituent Effects in Radical Chemistry based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-07 00:00:00 Dena Saisa It's okay as a reference, but there are some problems and discrepancies between the text (written by the author) and some of the text problems (written by the author's wife, who is also an organic chemist). Their biggest disagreement reveals itself in the section on substitution patterns and benzene rings. Thankfully, my professor gave us some absolutes about this topic, thus avoiding any possible confusion. So if this textbook is required for your organic chemistry class, find a good lecturer and use this textbook with caution. Like other textbooks, mistakes and discrepancies like the one I mentioned above will transfer from edition to edition. I am thankful that I had an excellent lecturer who treated this textbook only as a reference and a source for practice problems.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-09-27 00:00:00 Julie Storey I appreciate how McMurry explains the concepts of the book, although what I do not appreciate was the excessive details he needed to mention in each chapter. It appeared to me as if these unnecessary info were written there just to serve as fillers. I would've appreciated it if he wrote the concepts in a straightforward way. Details are good to serve as examples but unnecessary ones just make the text dragging.