A excellent but intermediate/advanced text
This is an excellent but intermediate/advanced text. I started to use problems from this text for sophomore organic class for chemistry majors. It provides a much needed gap between basic text books that seem to leave students a long way off from where they need to be in order to function in a contemporary organic research lab. This book offers only a minimal description of spectroscopic methods so it would not serve as a stand alone text for beginners but it provides a clear formalism for solving structures of fairly complex unknowns. The problems build in complexity guiding the reader through different strategies for combining spectroscopic methods in order to solve organic structures. There should be more 2-D spectra and it presents spectral data in tabular form (like you would find in the scientific literature) as opposed to real spectra. It would not substitute for an introductory text but is an excellent program for the undergraduate student preparing for a career in chemistry, graduate students or professional interested in honing their structure solving skills. The concise compilation of spectroscopic data is excellent.
Only spectroscopic data sets provided
Maybe my rating is a little harsh. It is not based on the content of the book, but on the way it is presented. Our students use spectra to determine structures and are not given the spectral data only. I was thus looking for and expected spectra sets and not only the data sets based on the spectra. BE WARNED: This book does not provide sets of spectra like for example Organic Structures from Spectra by Leslie D. Field et al.
About Organic Spectroscopic Structure Determination: A Problem-Based Learning Approach detail
- Amazon Sales Rank: #305463 in Books
- Published on: 2007-09-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
Organic Spectroscopic Structure Determination: A Problem-Based Learning Approach Description
Organic Spectroscopic Structure Determination is a sophomore-level book with emphasis on structure problem solving. It consists of four sections that attempt to engage the imagination of the student. Taber has arranged the material in such a way that the students can work the problems and learn the procedures on their own, minimizing the time taken in lecture. The first section contains three chapters of instruction on the methods of organic spectroscopy. The second contains fifty problems with just data sets of spectroscopic data. The third section is comprised of fifty problems that show starting materials and reaction conditions, with spectroscopic data for the product. The final section includes tables of spectroscopic data.
