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Organic Chemistry preparation
« on: July 10, 2014, 04:30:09 PM »
Hello!

I am a rising sophomore, and I will be taking the organic chemistry on next semester, so I thought it will be a good idea to brush up my general chemistry and organic chemistry over the rest of this summer.  I am currently an undergraduate research at bio-synthetic chemistry research lab, so I thought it would be a good idea to learn organic chemistry over this summer.  I am afraid that I forgot  considerable number of topics covered by my general chemistry course, mainly the kinetics, electrochemistry, and quantum mechanics.  Is it okay if I can study both general chemistry and organic chemistry at the same time? 

I have a textbook called "Principles of Modern Chemistry" by Oxtoby for the general chemistry.  I have following books for the organic chemistry: "Organic Chemistry" by Loudon, "Organic Chemistry" by Hornback, "Organic Chemistry" by Wade, "Electron Pushing" by Weeks, "Arrow Pushing" by Levy, "Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reactions" by Grossman, "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language I & 2" by Klein, Organic Chemistry for Dummies, and Peter Sykes' book on organic mechanism.  However, I think I will opt out both Wade and For Dummies since I feel like they are not that good.

Please tell me your suggestions and advice on studying both organic chemistry and general chemistry.  Thank you very much for your time!

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