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Author: John McMurry
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Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in all areas of biochemistry, The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways provides an accurate treatment of the major biochemical pathways from the perspective of mechanistic organic chemistry.
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- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Roberts and Company Publishers; 1st Edition edition (February 1, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0974707716
- ISBN-13: 978-0974707716
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 7.5 x 9.4 inches
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When I opened the book for the first time, my immediate reaction was "Wow, there's not much text, is there?" The page is fairly small to begin with, the font is fairly large, the line spacing and margins are generous, and there are a lot of figures. I realized after a while that this wasn't an especially fair criticism, though. Because the purpose of the text is primarily to show mechanisms of important metabolic reactions, most of the information can be conveyed through chemical structures. In fact, a significant chunk of the text is devoted to saying (paraphrased), "well, it's extremely difficult to determine exact mechanisms, so the precise path that this reaction follows is uncertain. The figure shows the most commonly proposed mechanism, but another possibility is that..." The alternative is most often explained in words but sometimes gets its own figure.
The book is very descriptive, offering mostly "what" and "how" rather than "why." Arguably, there's nothing inherently wrong with that, especially because the preface essentially says directly that that's the purpose of the book. But it does mean that the book is quite limited, and isn't very useful on its own. You would need a fully fleshed-out course to extract much value from it, and unfortunately, I know from firsthand experience that a well-designed course is far from a given. Our lectures and exams basically just asked us to regurgitate the mechanisms from the text, which was not useful or enjoyable. That seems to be the danger: a lazy lecturer told to use this textbook to teach a course will produce a worthless class from which the students will take away almost nothing of lasting value.
All that aside, there are still some quibbles with the book.
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