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Organic Chemistry Laboratory Survival Manual

Author: James W. Zubrick
Publisher: Wiley, 2007, 368pp, 7th ed.

Organic Chemistry Laboratory Survival Manual - Student's Guide to Techniques, Zubrick is a paperback student guide and introductory textbook to the basic techniques of the Organic Chemistry lab. The book describes the instruments and techniques used in an Organic Chemistry lab. Diagrams show students how to make measurements, set up labs and perform meaningful experiments. Manual presents the basic techniques in the organic chemistry laboratory, with the emphasis on doing the work correctly the first time.
Table of contents
Safety First, Last, and Always.
Keeping a Notebook.
Interpreting a Handbook.
Jointware.
Microscale Jointware.
Other Interesting Equipment.
Pipet Tips.
Syringes, Needles, and Septa.
Clean and Dry.
Drying Agents.
On Products.
The Melting Point Experiment.
Recrystallization.
Recrystallization: Microscale.
Extraction and Washing.
Extraction and Washing: Microscale.
And Now--Boiling Stones.
Sources of Heat.
Clamps and Clamping.
Distillation.
Microscale Distillation.
Reflux and Addition.
Reflux: Microscale.
Sublimation.
Microscale Boiling Point.
Chromatography: Some Generalities.
Thin-Layer Chromatography: TLC.
Wet-Column Chromatography.
Refractometry.
Instrumentation in the Lab.
Gas Chromatography.
HP Liquid Chromatography.
Infrared Spectroscopy.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR).
Theory of Distillation.
Theory of Extraction.
Index.