Book Description

Preface To the Instructor Acknowledgments Introduction Problem Solving in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Scientific Methodology Organization of This Book A Guide to Success in the Organic Chemistry Lab 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 Part I Mastering the Operations 1 The Effect of pH on a Food Preservative 2 Separating the Components of ldquo;Panacetinrdquo; 3 Identifying a Constituent of ldquo;Panacetinrdquo; 4 Synthesis of Salicylic Acid from Wintergreen Oil 5 Preparation of Synthetic Banana Oil 6 Separation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons 7 A Green Synthesis of Camphor 8 Identification of a Petroleum Hydrocarbon 9 Isolation and Isomerization of Lycopene from Tomato Paste 10 Isolation and Identification of the Major Constituent of Clove Oil 11 Identification of Unknown Ketones 12 The Optical Activity of -Pinene: A Chemical Mystery Part II Correlated Laboratory Experiments 13 Investigation of a Chemical Bond by Infrared Spectrometry 14 Properties of Common Functional Groups 15 Thin-Layer Chromatographic Analysis of Drug Components 16 Separation of an Alkane Clathrate 17 Isomers and Isomerization Reactions 18 Structures and Properties of Stereoisomers 19 Bridgehead Reactivity in an S N 1 Solvolysis Reaction 20 Reaction of Iodoethane with Sodium Saccharin, an Ambident Nucleophile 21 Dehydration of Methylcyclohexanols and the Evelyn Effect 22 Testing Markovnikovrsquo;s Rule 23 Stereochemistry of Bromine Addition totrans-Cinnamic Acid 24 A Green Synthesis of Adipic Acid 25 Preparation of Bromotriphenylmethane and the Trityl Free Radical 26 Chain-Growth Polymerization of Styrene and Methyl Methacrylate 27 Synthesis of Ethanol by Fermentation 28 Reaction of Butanols with Hydrobromic Acid 29 Borohydride Reduction of Vanillin to Vanillyl Alcohol 30 Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol and the TritylCarbocation 31 An Unexpected Reaction of 2,3-Dimethyl-2,3-butanediol 32 Identification.