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Charles E. Bell Jr., Douglass F. Taber, Allen K. Clark - Organic Chemistry Laboratory: With Qualitative Analysis Standard and Microscale Experiments
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Being organic chemistry manual, this book is composed of a list of experiments of standard and microscale setting. The experiments are easiest for those who have had at least half a year of organic chemistry course and have some prior knowledge of its main topics. If such is not the case, each experiment is accompanied by introduction at its very beginning. The introduction explains basics, lists some laws/equations, exhibits diagrams of some equipments, and wraps up covering just a couple of pages. Introductions are somewhat sufficient to get a taste, but it is recommended to seek other sources of information if you really want to know what you're doing. Here, prior knowledge of organic chemistry really kicks in. After introduction come the experiments. Each experiment is identified as "macroscale" or "microscale". Taking classes, most instructors change the experiments to whatever is more convenient/cheaper/ easier for the course, but the experiments they devise are still very similar. Reading experiments in the book will give you a clue as to what to expect in lab. After the experiments follow the Questions, the Prelaboratory Questions, and References. Sometimes, there is a Safe Note here or there. The book included a whole chapter on safety at the very beginning. Being very useful for passing safety exams, it also does some things such as listing carcinogens, naming some lab equipment, and reviewing some basic lab techniques. The very back contains appendices and an index.
Subjects included are: recrystallization, melting points, extraction, distillation, gas/column/thin layer chromatography, HPLC, infared spectroscopy, NMR, reactions of alcohols/aldehydes/ketones/amines, oxydation and reduction, Fiedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation, nitration, nucleophilic substitution, Grignard reaction, determination of pKa, derivatives of carboxylic acids chemiluminescence, heterocyclic synthesis, analysis of sugars and fats, synthesis of polymers, properties of dyes, synthesis of a couple other specific substances. All is quite fun to do - especially if trying to apply new knowledge of organic chemistry to practice. Experienced chemists usually know such experiments by heart.
This manual is a 3rd ed. published in 2001, so most books look somewhat worn already. It is 3/4 of an inch in thickness, has standard textbook dimensions otherwise, and is not heavy at all (400 pages long) It can be bought as cheaply at $60 in used condition. Text is easy to read. Instructions for experiments are clear and concise.
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