Synopses & Reviews
This comprehensive lab companion provides a thorough introduction to all of the significant operations used in the organic lab, for both traditional-scale and microscale applications. It includes enough theory to help students 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. 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.
About the Author
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
To the Instructor
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
To the Student
A Guide to Success in the Organic Chemistry Lab
Scientific Methodology
Laboratory Safety
Safety Standards
Protecting Yourself
Preventing Laboratory Accidents
Reacting to Accidents: First Aid
Reacting to Accidents: Fire
Chemical Hazards
Finding and Using Chemical Safety Information
Chemistry and the Environment
Disposal of Hazardous Wastes
Green Chemistry
Laboratory Operations
A) Basic Operations
1. Cleaning and Drying Glassware
2. Using Specialized Glassware
3. Using Glass Rod and Tubing
4. Weighing
5. Measuring Volume
6. Making Transfers
B) Operations for Conducting Chemical Reactions
7. Heating
8. Cooling
9. Temperature Monitoring
10. Mixing
11. Addition of Reactants
12. Excluding Water from Reaction Mixtures
13. Excluding Air from Reaction Mixtures
14. Trapping Gases
C) Separation Operations
15. Gravity Filtration
16. Vacuum Filtration
17. Centrifugation
18. Extraction
19. Evaporation
20. Steam Distillation
21. Column Chromatography
22. Thin-Layer Chromatography
23. Paper Chromatography
D) Washing and Drying Operations
24. Washing Liquids
25. Drying Liquids
26. Washing and Drying Solids
27. Cleaning and Drying Gases
E) Purification Operations
28. Recrystallization
29. Sublimation
30. Simple Distillation
31. Vacuum Distillation
32. Fractional Distillation
F) Measuring Physical Constants
33. Melting Point
34. Boiling Point
35. Refractive Index
36. Optical Rotation
G) Instrumental Analysis
37. Gas Chromatography
38. High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
39. Infrared Spectrometry
40. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry
41. Ultraviolet—Visible Spectrometry
42. Mass Spectrometry
Appendixes and Bibliography
I Laboratory Equipment
II Keeping a Laboratory Notebook
III Writing a Laboratory Report
IV Calculations for Organic Synthesis
V Planning an Experiment
VI Properties of Organic Compounds
VII The Chemical Literature
Bibliography
Index