1: For a stereochemistry learning guid in organic chemistry, this is the best
Jason Eames and Josephine Peach have written perhaps the best guide for those who really want to learn stereo or organic chemistry in three dimensions. Most student organic texts will contain a 10-20 or so page chapter going in all directions on this topic--and the students as well as instructor, more or less call "truce" and move on..quickly. Learning this subject, if not well thought out, is quite arduous and difficult because you are attempting to illustrate 3 D chemistry with a blackboard or print. Even in pharmacy school, the texts are rather shallow in my opinion on this topic. Enantiomers are of the most importance in medicine, as most of us know. My instuctors copy on chiral chemistry is 79 pages long, and not nearly as good as these authors have done. Eanes and Peach though, make it very clear on their approach. Do not skip to chapter 2, until you really know the first part of their book. That even goes for some of you graduate students who know everything. The authors do not overly burden you with cholesterol structures and bridged compounds. On page vi is exactly how you should follow their methods of do's and don'ts. Follow their advice, and this book will be very rewarding for you. They not only give you the answers, but thoroughly demonstrate on how they were derived. I purchased this text because it is quite good, even though the subject matter, at times, might seem overwhelming. It augments my own chapter quite nicely and they have some excellent ideas and illustrations. You cannot complete their text in one or two days. It is that good. I not only recommend it, I tell you it may be the best text written on chiral chemistry I have ever crossed. And that list is quite long. guyairey
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