Educational Background:

PhD, Columbia University, 1967 BA, Harvard University, 1964

Awards:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science • Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation Fellow • National Institutes of Health Career Development Award • Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award • Max Planck Research Award

Research Description:

Professor McMurry is engaged in writing chemistry textbooks. He is the author or coauthor of the following widely used texts:

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Organic Chemistry with Biological Applications 2e, Brooks/Cole-Cengage, Belmont, CA, 2011 (1152pp.)

Organic Chemistry, 7th Ed., Brooks/Cole-Cengage, Belmont, CA, 2008 (1224 pp.)

General Chemistry: Atoms First (with Robert Fay), Prentice Hall—Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2010 (940 pages)

Fundamentals of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, 6th Ed., (with David Ballantine, Carl Hoeger, and Virginia Peterson), Prentice Hall—Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2010 (900 pages)

Chemistry, 5th Ed., (with Robert Fay), Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008, 1014 pages.

The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways, (with Tadhg Begley), Roberts and Co., Englewood, CO, 2005 (428 pp.)

Selected Publications:

See above.