Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry

Available March 2014
Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry

Fourth Edition ©2014

ISBN-10: 1-4641-3422-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-4641-3422-7
Paper Text, 312 pages

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Authors

• Jerry R. Mohrig
  Carleton College
• David Alberg
• Gretchen Holifmeister
• Paul F. Schatz
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Christina Noring Hammond
  Vassar College

PART 1 Introduction to the Organic Laboratory
ESSAY Introduction to the Organic Laboratory

1. Safety in the Laboratory
2. Protecting the Environment
3. Laboratory Notebooks and Prelaboratory Information

PART 2 Carrying Out Chemical Reactions
ESSAY Carrying Out Chemical Reactions

4. Laboratory Glassware
5. Measurements and Transferring Reagents
6. Heating and Cooling Methods
7. Carrying out Organic Reactions
8. Computational Chemistry

PART 3 Basic Methods for Separation, Purification, and Analysis
ESSAY Intermolecular Forces in Organic Chemistry

9. Filtration
10. Extraction
11. Drying Organic Liquids and Recovering Reaction Products
12. Boiling Points and Distillation
13. Refractometry
14. Melting Points and Melting Ranges
15. Recrystallization
16. Sublimation
17. Optical Activity and Enantiomeric Analysis

PART 4 Chromatography
ESSAY Modern Chromatographic Separations

18. Thin-Layer Chromatography
19. Liquid Chromatography
20. Gas Chromatography

PART 5 Spectrometric Characterization Methods
ESSAY The Spectrometric Revolution

21. Infrared Spectroscopy
22. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
23. 13C and Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy
24. Mass Spectrometry
25. Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy
26 . Integrated Spectrometry Problems

PART 6 Designing and Carrying out Organic Experiments
27. Using the Literature of Organic Chemistry
28. Designing a Chemical Reaction