Student Lab Companion Laboratory Techniques for Organic Chemistry

by Lehman, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780131593817
• ISBN10: 0131593811
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This comprehensive lab companion provides enough theory to help readers understand how and why an operation works, but emphasizes the practical aspects of an operation to help them perform the operation successfully in the lab.Makes substantive revisions of many operations to clarify existing material and add new information. Emphasizes environmentally friendly (i.e. "green") lab experiments. Adds a new section on Chemistry and the Environment.A useful guide for chemists and other professionals who do laboratory work in the scientific fields.

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

Preface

Introduction

Laboratory Safety

Laboratory Operations

Basic Operations

Cleaning and Drying Glassware

Using Specialized Glassware

Using Glass Rod and Tubing

Weighing

Measuring Volume

Making Transfers

Operations for Conducting Chemical Reactions

Heating

Cooling

Temperature Monitoring

Mixing

Addition of Reactants

Separation Operations

Gravity Filtration

Vacuum Filtration

Centrifugation

Extraction

Evaporation

Steam Distillation

Column Chromatography

Thin-Layer Chromatography

Paper Chromatography

Washing and Drying Operations

Washing Liquids

Drying Liquids

Drying Solids

Drying and Trapping Gases

Purification Operations

Recrystallization

Sublimation

Simple Distillation

Vacuum Distillation

Fractional Distillation

Measuring Physical Constants

Melting Point

Boiling Point

Refractive Index

Optical Rotation

Instrumental Analysis

Gas Chromatography

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Infrared Spectrometry

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry

Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometry

Mass Spectrometry

Appendixes

Bibliography

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