Organic chemistry: an acid-base approach

By 2011-05-01T00:00:00

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Michael Smith

If you fancy writing essays, reading thick books, and are easily distracted by illustrations, then Organic Chemistry: An Acid-Base Approach by Michael Smith is possibly a perfect match. 

The equilibrium between hydrochloric acid and water, complete with curly arrows and a much abbreviated pKa table, is one of the first things I present undergraduates when introducing organic chemistry. I was therefore excited to get my hands on a textbook that is marketed as 'designed to provide a new approach to teaching organic chemistry. via  an acid-base theme'. However, opening the book for the first time was somewhat of an anticlimax - 1574 pages of block text. 

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