Organic Chemistry
"The major strengths of the Brown book are the clarity of discussions and the overall organization and order in which topics are presented. Just reading through any chapter, discussions typically provide a very polished and direct explanation of the topic at hand. Moreover the organization of the text proceeds in a manner that builds nicely, for example the reactions of alkyl halides are directly preceded by reactions to generate them."-Zachary D. Aron, Indiana University"The strengths of the Brown book are, a reasonable organization, a fairly good mechanistic approach to organic chemistry, the biological highlights are very strong, very good selection of problems in chapter and at the end, the reaction summary at end of chapter is very useful, and the mechanisms within colored areas in the text help them stand out."-Jean Chmielewski, Purdue University