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This traditional-scale lab book prepares readers to perform the fundamental operations of organic chemistry in the laboratory and apply the operations intelligently in new situations -- to think and act like an organic chemist. Features traditional-scale laboratory procedures which do not require expensive, special glassware and which provide enough material for visual and physical characterization. Contains 115 experiments -- 12 experiments that teach basic operations, 46 experiments that reinforce concepts, and 47 minilabs (shorter experiments that can be used to fill partial or shorter lab periods). Features many experiments that use common or household compounds. Provides a section on qualitative organic analysis. Includes sections on using the chemical literature, keeping a notebook, and planning a synthesis. For anyone interested in organic chemistry.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• To the Instructor
• Introduction
• Laboratory Safety
• I Mastering the Operations
• 1 Learning Basic Operations
• The Effect of pH on a Food Preservative
• 2 Extraction and Evaporation
• Separating the Components of Panacetin
• 3 Recrystallization and Melting Point Measurement
• Identifying a Constituent of Panacetin
• 4 Heating under Reflux
• Synthesis of Salicylic Acid from Wintergreen Oil
• 5 Simple Distillation, Gas Chromatography
• Preparation of Synthetic Banana Oil
• 6 Fractional Distillation
• Separation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
• 7 Addition, Mixing, Sublimation
• Preparation of Camphor
• 8 Boiling Point, Refractive Index
• Identification of a Petroleum Hydrocarbon
• 9 Column Chromatography, UV-VIS Spectrometry
• Isolation and Isomerization of Lycopene from Tomato Paste
• 10 Steam Distillation, Infrared Spectrometry
• Isolation and Identification of the Major Constituent of Clove Oil
• 11 Thin-Layer Chromatography, NMR Spectrometry
• Identification of Unknown Ketones
• 12 Vacuum Distillation, Optical Rotation
• Optical Activity of ...a-Pinene
• II Correlated Laboratory Experiments
• 13 Investigation of a Chemical Bond by Infrared Spectrometry
• 14 Properties of Common Functional Groups
• 15 Thin-Layer Chromatographic Analysis of Drug Components
• 16 Separation of an Alkane Clathrate
• 17 Isomers and Isomerization Reactions
• 18 Structures and Properties of Stereoisomers
• 19 Bridgehead Reactivity in an SN1 Solvolysis Reaction
• 20 Reaction of Iodoethane with Sodium Saccharin, an Ambident Nucleophile
• 21 Dehydration of Methylcyclohexanols
• 22 Synthesis of 7,7-Dichloronorcarane Using a Phase-Transfer Catalyst
• 23 Stereochemistry of the Addition of Bromine to trans-Cinnamic Acid
• 24 Hydration of a Difunctional Alkyne
• 25 Preparation of Bromotriphenylmethane and the Trityl Free Radical
• 26 Chain-Growth Polymerization of Styrene and Methyl Methacrylate
• 27 Synthesis of Ethanol by Fermentation
• 28 The Reaction of Butanols with Hydrobromic Acid
• 29 Borohydride Reduction of Vanillin
• 30 Multistep Synthesis of Cyclopentanol from Cyclohexanol
• 31 Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol and the Trityl Carbocation
• 32 Identification of a Conjugated Diene from Eucalyptus Oil
• 33 Spectral Identification of Terpenoids
• 34 Synthesis and Spectral Analysis of Aspirin
• 35 Preparation of Nonbenzenoid Aromatic Compounds
• 36 Mechanism of the Nitration of Arenes by Nitronium Fluoborate
• 37 Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Anisole
• 38 Structure of a Natural Product in Anise Oil
• 39 Identification of an Oxygen-Containing Organic Compound
• 40 Wittig Synthesis of 1,4-Diphenyl-1,3-Butadiene
• 41 Effect of Reaction Conditions on the Condensation of Furfural with Cyclopentanone
• 42 Haloform Oxidation of 4'-Methoxyacetophenone
• 43 Electronic Effect of a para-Iodo Substituent
• 44 Synthesis and Identification of an Unknown Carboxylic Acid
• 45 Preparation of the Insect Repellent N, N- Diethyl-m-Toluamide
• 46 Synthesis of 2-Acetylcyclohexanone by the Stork Enamine Reaction
• 47 Synthesis of Dimedone and Measurement of Its Tautomeric Equilibrium Constant
• 48 Preparation of Para Red and Related Azo Dyes
• 49 Reaction of Phthalimide with Sodium Hypochlorite
• 50 Identification of an Unknown Amine
• 51 Preparation and Mass Spectrum of 2-Phenylindole
• 52 Nucleophilic Strength an