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Using this Microscope is like night and day from my Monocular unit! This unit has a lot better focuser, you can see images in a clear 3d type effect. with my other unit, you could not see any apparent depth. The ccd port, i was not able to get it to be parafocal with the eyepiece. requiring a little extra focuser movement to get CCD image focused or vise-versa. Otherwise, i love this new unit!

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I'm using this book in an introductory organic spectroscopy class, and have found it to be both mildly obscurantist and riddled with minor errors. There are (very) few worked examples in the text, and much of the exposition of process and technique would be enhanced by the inclusion of illustrative diagrams (which have frequently and inexplicably been left out in sections dealing with fairly complicated situations). Almost no physical explanations are given for the various spectral techniques and phenomenon covered in the book. All in all, a frustrating experience.

This is one of the worst spectroscopy books, even by spectroscopy textbook standards. Providing a broad survey of spectroscopic techniques, our class encountered errors all over the book (just like the chemical literature!!). Example problems could have been better selected. I use the book for its tables (IR table, specifically) only. Experience and NMR calculation software will top this book as an aide to the synthetic chemist.

I used this book as a reference countless times during my graduate years, when I did a lot of IR and some UV-vis spectroscopy. In this capacity it was most useful. It is organized well for this purpose and the charts are comprehensive enough for a wide range of chemical spectra. It is also very helpful when you need a brief explanation of specific chemical shifts and the like.

I took a class in organic spectroscopy this year (spring 1999) and this was the primary textbook. My professor skipped some of the chapters and handed out supplementary materials instead. I don't know what was the motive to choose it as a textbook, i guess because it covers all, although superficially. If you are looking for a book on the subject, I suggest finding a few older ones that concentrate on subjects instead of something that wants to be the Holy Grail of Spectroscopy.

I teach the class this book is intended for: graduate level organic spectroscopy. It is a first edition, so there may be a glitch or two here and there, but I have been very pleased with it.In my opinion, there are no ideal books out there. Either the background/theory is inadequate (e.g., Silverstein), the tables are hardly useful (e.g., Pavia), or there aren't enough problems. On the other extreme are NMR-only books like Gunther's or Schlichter that are beyond the scope of the course. While I personally would like to see more tables than are present in Lambert's book, they are a good start and will do very well for many people.The book includes very reasonable introductions to a great variety of techniques. The section on ionization in mass spec, for instance, has subsections on LD, SIMS, FAB, MALDI, ESI, TS, and APCI on top of the usual EI and CI methods. In the optical spectroscopy section, there are good introductions to CD and ORD. The chapter on 2D NMR is also much more extensive than typical for these books.There are 35 "integrated problems" in the back of the book, but I might like to have seen more problems associated with each chapter. I assign this book with confidence, supplementing it with some tables and home grown problems. As far as I'm concerned, it's the class of the current (1999) lot.

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I find this reference to be greatly helpful. Bare in mind, that is a reference, not a textbook on organic spectroscopy, with little information on how to go about interpreting the various spectra. But nearly all the information one needs to interpret MS, UV/Vis, IR, and H and C NMR is in the book. My favorite feature are the combination spectra of common solvents. Much more helpful than simply peak data. I probably look at those pages more often than any others. I recommend this book, especially to newer organic chemists.

I thought this book would have more information in it. Its good for basic organic courses...but even then, you could do better at the library. Quite disappointing

this book contains a lot of information, but organized in such a way that is easy to find what you need.

The book was in perfect condition and was sent at time. I will agree that my first experience with Amazon was an excellent one. Thank you

I'm taking an organic spectroscopy course for my graduate program in Organic chemistry and my exams consist of MS, IR, proton NMR, and C13 NMR spectra. This book is absolutely incredible. It gives you chemical shifts for nearly every conceivable structure for proton and C13 NMR and it also gives you absorptions for the IR frequencies of known functional groups. It has helped me many times in trying to determine the structure of an unknown compound. Like the other reviewer said, this book is the bible of organic spectroscopy. I see it being used all the time in the organic research lab when graduate students are trying to figure out what they synthesized.