Multiscale Operational Organic Chemistry A Problem Solving Approach to the Laboratory

by Lehman, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780132413756
• ISBN10: 0132413752
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-09
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This practical laboratory book provides both microscale and multiscale experiments. It encourages readers to think in the laboratory by solving a scientific problem in the process of carrying out an experiment.An "operational" approach is featured, equipping readers to master the major lab operations as they carry out problem solving experiments. Over 400 problems and exercises are provided.A valuable reference for organic chemists and chemical technicians.

Author Biography

John W. Lehman received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He has taught chemistry for 35 years at Lake Superior State University, a small university in Michigan's scenic Upper Peninsula. In recognition of his teaching skills, he received the State of Michigan's Teaching Excellence Award in 1990. In 2001 he funded a chemistry scholarship to help bring outstanding students into the chemistry program at Lake Superior State University. His groundbreaking lab text, Operational Organic Chemistry, was first published in 1981, and he has written three additional books for the organic chemistry laboratory.

Table of Contents

Please note this is the 1st edition Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

MASTERING THE OPERATIONS

Learning Basic Operations

The Effect of pH on a Food Preservative

Extraction and Evaporation

Separating the Components of ldquo;Panacetin.rdquo;

Recrystallization and Melting-Point Measurement

Identifying a Constituent of ldquo;Panacetin.rdquo;

Heating under Reflux

Synthesis of Salicylic Acid from Wintergreen Oil

Simple Distillation, Gas Chromatography

Preparation of Synthetic Banana Oil

Fractional Distillation

Separation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

Addition, Mixing, Sublimation

Preparation of Camphor

Boiling Point, Refractive Index

Identification of a Petroleum Hydrocarbon

Column Chromatography, UV-VIS Spectrometry

Isolation and Isomerization of Lycopene from Tomato Paste

Steam Distillation, Infrared Spectrometry

Isolation and Identification of the Major Constituent of Clove Oil

Thin-Layer Chromatography, NMR Spectrometry

Identification of Unknown Ketones

Vacuum Distillation, Optical Rotation

Optical Activity of hellip;a-Pinene

Correlated Laboratory Experiments

Investigation of a Chemical Bond by Infrared Spectrometry

Properties of Common Functional Groups

Thin-Layer Chromatographic Analysis of Drug Components

Separation of an Alkane Clathrate

Isomers and Isomerization Reactions

Structures and Properties of Stereoisomers

Bridgehead Reactivity in an S n 1 Solvolysis Reaction

Reaction of Iodoetane with Saccharin, an Ambident Nucleophile

Dehydration of Methylcyclohexanols

Synthesis of 7,7-Dichloronorcarane Using a Phase-Transfer Catalyst

Stereochemistry of the Addition of Bromine totrans-Cinnamic Acid

Preparation of Bromotriphenylmethane and the Trityl Free Radical

Chain-Growth Polymerization of Styrene and Methyl Methacrylate

Synthesis of Ethanol by Fermentation

Reaction of Butanols with Hydrobromic Acid

Borohydride Reduction of Vanillin to Vanillyl Alcohol

Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol and the Trityl Carbocation

Identification of a Conjugated Diene from Eucalyptus Oil

Spectral Identification of Terpenoids

Synthesis

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