Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry. Supports Inquiry-Driven-Experiments

Description

Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry is the most comprehensive presentation of the lab techniques that organic chemistry students need to know. Compatible with any organic chemistry lab manual or set of experiments, it provides effective support for guided-inquiry and design-based experiments, as well as traditional lab experiments.

Contents

PART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 IV: CHROMATOGRAPHY Essay: Modern Chromatographic Separations
18. Thin-Layer Chromatography
19. Liquid Chromatography
20. Gas Chromatography PART V: 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 VI: DESIGNING AND CARRYING OUT ORGANIC EXPERIMENTS
27. Using the Literature of Organic Chemistry
28. Designing a Chemical Reaction

Authors

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