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u/SyntheticMoJo · 3 pointsr/chemistry

From which background are you asking this? Because from a chemistry point of view this seems like a silly question because the knowledge growths and changes each day.
From the perspective of an interested citizen with the goal of an broad education a single good general chemistry book like Zumdahl/Chemistry contains enough knowledge about chemistry for a lifetime.

If you want to build a doomsday proof bible of chemical knowledge or want to bolster your library as a scientist from another scientific branch like biology or physics you could alsocome quite close to capturing the most important knowledge. For this approach I would take the existing "bibles" for subtopics of chemistry like organic chemistry like Bruise/Organic Chemistry. I would at least take specific books from organic, inorganic, physical, analytical chemistry aswell as biochemistry. Most of these bibles have 1000+ pages so this "book" with 6000+ pages could maybe contain something like 50% of the knowledge about chemistry by todays standards.

u/193152020 · 2 pointsr/chemistry

The textbook my organic chemistry class (undergrad) uses is the one by Bruice. It's pretty good at explaining the mechanisms and relevance of most things and it also has quite a lot of practice problems. There were a few things my professor would complain about like using bromomethane as a reagent at room temperature (which was him just being nit-picky), but it does well as a resource for organic chemistry.

My analytical class used the Harris book which seemed like a good resource. I only read through two of the chapters in it so I can't say much for the entire contents.

I have both books sitting in my room if anyone has any questions on them.

u/TheDrugsLoveMe · 1 pointr/OrganicChemistry

https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Paula-Yurkanis-Bruice/dp/0321803221/

This was the book I used - just an earlier edition.