Organic chemistry (2nd edn)

It’s an interesting position to be in to review the second edition of a book that, quite frankly, I grew up with. Having started my undergraduate course in the same year that the first edition of Organic chemistry came out, I can significantly credit it with fanning an interest in the subject into a lasting obsession - and I can see this edition doing much the same for the next generation of chemists.

It’s been 11 years since the first edition was released and it is a reflection of its calibre that it has weathered the years remarkably well in a market that often produces new editions within five years of the last. While the first edition is still a valuable book in its own right, the second has been completely revised and updated, with substantial reorganisation of structure.