How to ace Organic Chem Lab … without blowing anything up.

“The tongue-in-cheek conversational tone of the manual makes it very favorably received by the students…Students do not have to wade through a lot of text to get the important information.” — DR. LYNNE CANNON, The Universityof Iowa

“The major strengths of Zubrick’s lab manual are his writing style and his sense of humor.” — DR. HENRY GINGRICH, Princeton University

If you want to get through Organic Lab in one piece—and with a good grade—you need this guide. Famous among organic chem. students for its humor and clarity, The Organic Lab Survival Manualgets you up to speed on the instruments you’ll be using in Organic Chemistry lab and on the techniques you’ll have to master to perform your experiments. Diagrams show you how to make measurements, set up labs, and perform meaningful experiments, while following the rules that will keep you, your classmates, and the environment safe.

Ideal as a quick lab reference as well as a beginner’s guide, this new edition helps you:

• Understand and practice good lab safety
• Become familiar with basic instruments and techniques, including jointware, pipet tips. syringes, needles, and septa, cleaning and drying, recrystallization, extraction and washing, distillation, sublimation, chromatography, infrared spectroscopy
• Master the latest techniques, such as interpreting spectra with IR Spectroscopy
• Prepare thoroughly, with pre-lab quizzes and other study aids 

This student guide to the basic techniques of the organic chemistry lab 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.

* Praised by students and faculty for its clarity, use of humor, and appropriate amount of detail.

* Emphasis on safety in the lab encourages students to maintain safe practices.

* Succinct coverage of information makes it ideal for quick reference in the lab.

* Short sections with targeted information make information easier to find and comprehend.

Written for the laboratory that accompanies the sophomore/junior level courses in Organic Chemistry, Zubrick is a paperback student guide 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.

James W. Zubrickis Professor of Chemistry at Hudson Valley Community College.

Chapter 1. Safety First, Last, And Always.

Chapter 2. Keeping A Notebook .

Chapter 3. Interpreting A Handbook.

Chapter 4. Jointware.

Chapter 5. Microscale Jointware.

Chapter 6. Other Interesting Equipment.

Chapter 8. Syringes, Needles, And Septa.

Chapter 9. Clean And Dry.

Chapter 10. Drying Agents.

Chapter 11. On Products.

Chapter 12. The Melting-Point Experiment.

Chapter 13. Recrystallization.

Chapter 14. Recrystallization: Microscale.

Chapter 15. Extraction And Washing.

Chapter 16. Extraction And Washing: Microscale.

Chapter 17. And Now—Boiling Stones.

Chapter 18. Sources Of Heat.

Chapter 19. Clamps And Clamping.

Chapter 20. Distillation.

Chapter 21. Microscale Distillation.

Chapter 22. The Rotary Evaporator.

Chapter 23. Reflux And Addition.

Chapter 24. Reflux: Microscale.

Chapter 25. Sublimination.

Chapter 26. Microscale Boiling Point.

Chapter 27. Chromatography: Some Generalities.

Chapter 28. Thin-Layer Chromatography: Tlc.

Chapter 29. Wet-Column Chromatography.

Chapter 30. Refractometry.

Chapter 31. Instrumentation In The Lab.

Chapter 32. Gas Chromatography.

Chapter 33. Hp Liquid Chromatography.

Chapter 34. Infrared Spectroscopy.

Chapter 35. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Chapter 36. Theory Of Distillation.

Chapter 37. Theory Of Extraction.

Index.