Best-selling chemistry textbook is now free

A close-up photo showing overlapping pages in an organic chemistry textbook, apparently in the section that discusses the Diels-Alder reaction.

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New edition of John McMurry’s Organic Chemistry will be open access after author discovers copyright loophole

The author of a popular organic chemistry textbook is making it freely available to students after learning about a loophole in his copyright agreement with the book’s publisher.