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Using simple equipment and green chemistry ideas, UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: A LABORATORY COURSE includes 37 experiments that introduce traditional, as well as recently developed synthetic methods. Offering up-to-date and novel experiments not found in other lab manuals, this innovative book focuses on safety, gives users practice in the basic techniques used in the organic lab, and includes microscale experiments, many drawn from the recent literature.

The Theory And Techniques
Safety in the Chemistry Lab
The Laboratory Notebook and the Laboratory Period
Where to Find It: Searching the Literature
Things You Need to Know Before You Begin
Properties of Organic Molecules
Characteristic Physical Properties of Pure Compounds
Isolation and Purification of Compounds
Structure Determination
Running a Synthetic Reaction
The Experiments
Experiment
Calibrating a Pasteur Pipette
Experiment
Investigating Solubility and Acid-Base Reactions
Experiment
Mixed Melting Points
Experiment
Whittling Down the Possibilities: Identifying an Unknown Using Molecular Dipole Moment, Solubility, Density and Boiling Point Data
Experiment
Recrystallization and Melting Points: Recrystallization of Adipic and Salicylic Acids
Experiment
Recrystallization and Melting Points: Recrystallization of an Unknown Solid and the Decolorization of Brown Sugar
Experiment
Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)
Experiment
Identification of an Adulterated Herb or Spice by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)
Experiment
What Do You Take for Pain?
Experiment
Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of Alkyl Halides
Experiment
The Isolation of Trimyristin from Nutmeg
Experiment
The Magtrieve? Oxidation of 4-Chlorobenzyl Alcohol
Experiment
The Sodium Borohydride Reduction of Benzil and Benzoin
Experiment
The Grignard Reaction: The Preparation of 1,1-Diphenylethanol
Experiment
The Asymmetric Dihydroxylation of trans-Stilbene
Experiment
Some Chemistry of ?-Pinene Oxide
Experiment
A Dehydrogenation/Hydrogenation Reaction
Experiment
The Friedel-Crafts Reaction
Experiment
Microwave Heating of Organic Compounds
Experiment
The Reaction of 1,1-Diphenylethanol on Clay in the Presence of Microwave Radiation
Experiment
The Wittig Reaction
Experiment
The Suzuki Reaction
Experiment
The Crossed-Aldol Condensation
Experiment
Identifying the Structure of an Aldehyde by Qualitative Analysis
Experiment
The Benzoin Reaction
Experiment
The Diels-Alder Reaction
Experiment
Synthesis of an ?-?-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acid Derivative
Experiment
The Reaction of 2-Acetylphenyl Benzoate with Potassium Hydroxide
Experiment
The Reaction of 2-Acetylphenyl Benzoate with Potassium Hydroxide
Experiment
Synthesis of 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-?-Carboline
Experiment
Base-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Nicotinonitrile Using an Anion-Exchange Resin
Experiment
Reactions of Salicylamide
Experiment
The Hunsdiecker Reaction
Experiment
The Investigation of the Mechanism of a Reaction
Experiment
Monoterpenes and the Ritter Reaction
Experiment
Chemoselectivity in Transfer-Hydrogenation Reactions
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