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Organic Chemistry Lab Textbook
- Author
- Evan Joslin
- Publisher
- Sewanee
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 111 sections
- 01: General Information
- 1.01: Reading Drawing and Understanding- The Power of Visualization
- 1.02: Safety
- 1.03: Notebook
- 1.04: Chemical Hazards
- 1.4.01: Introduction to Hazards of Chemistry
- 1.4.02: Chemical Waste
- 02: Important Calculations
- 2.01: Important Calculations (Limiting Reagent)
- 2.02: Important Calculations (Theoretical Yield and Percent Yield)
- 03: General Techniques for Lab
- 3.01: Transferring and Weighting Methods
- 3.02: Drying Agents
- 3.03: Heating and Cooling Methods
- 3.3.01: Methods and Flammability
- 3.3.02: Controlled Boiling
- 3.3.03: Hotplates
- 3.3.04: Heating Mantles
- 3.3.05: Water Sand and Oil Baths
- 3.3.06: Cooling Baths
- 3.3.07: Reflux
- 04: Glassware and Equipment
- 4.01: Storing Samples (Parafilm)
- 4.02: Pictures of Glassware and Equipment
- 4.03: Ground Glass Joints
- 4.04: Hood and Clamping
- 4.05: Greasing Joints
- 4.06: Cleaning and Drying Glassware
- 05: Filtering Methods
- 5.01: Overview of Methods
- 5.02: Decanting
- 5.03: Gravity Filtration
- 5.04: Suction Filtration
- 06: Crystallization
- 6.01: Overview of Crystallization
- 6.02: Uses of Crystallization
- 6.2A: Reagent Purification
- 6.2B: Purification of Product Mixtures
- 6.03: Crystallization Theory
- 6.3A: Purification
- 6.3B: Cooling Slowly
- 6.3C: Using the Minimum Amount of Hot Solvent
- 6.3D: The Unavoidable Loss of Recovery
- 6.04: Choice of Solvent
- 6.4A: Ideal Temperature Profile
- 6.4B: General Procedures for Removing Impurities
- 6.05: Procedural Generalities
- 6.5A: General Procedure
- 6.5B: Initiating Crystallization
- 6.5C: Cooling Slowly
- 6.06: Step-by-Step Procedures
- 6.6A: Single Solvent Crystallization
- 6.6B: Crystallization Summary
- 6.6C: Using Solvents Other Than Water
- 6.6D: Troubleshooting
- 07: Melting Point
- 7.01: Overview of Melting Point
- 7.02: Uses of Melting Points
- 7.03: Melting Point Theory
- 7.04: Step-by-Step Procedures for Melting Point Determination
- 08: Extraction
- 8.01: Prelude to Extraction
- 8.02: Overview of Extraction
- 8.03: Uses of Extraction
- 8.04: Which Layer is Which
- 8.05: Extraction Theory
- 8.06: Common Extraction Washes
- 8.07: Step-by-Step Procedures For Extractions (Large Scale)
- 8.08: Step-by-Step Procedures For Extractions (Microscale)
- 8.09: Acid-Base Extraction
- 09: Chromatography
- 9.01: Prelude to Chromatography
- 9.02: Chromatography Generalities
- 9.2A: Overview of Chromatography
- 9.2B: General Separation Theory
- 9.03: Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)
- 9.3A: Overview of TLC
- 9.3B: Uses of TLC
- 9.3C: The Retention Factor
- 9.3D: Separation Theory
- 9.3E: Step-by-Step Procedures for Thin Layer Chromatography
- 9.3F: Visualizing TLC Plates
- 9.04: Column Chromatography
- 9.4A: Macroscale Columns
- 9.4B: Microscale (Pipette) Columns
- 10: Stereoisomers
- 10.01: Chiral Molecules
- 10.02: Optical Activity
- 10.03: Absolute Configuration- R-S Sequence Rules
- 10.04: Molecules Incorporating Several Stereocenters- Diastereomers
- 11: Distillation
- 11.01: Overview of Distillation
- 11.02: Simple Distillation
- 11.2A: Uses of Simple Distillation
- 11.2B: Separation Theory
- 11.2C: Step-by-Step Procedures
- 11.2D: Microscale Distillation
- 11.03: Steam Distillation
- 11.3A: Overview of Steam Distillation
- 11.3B: Uses of Steam Distillation
- 11.3C: Separation Theory
- 11.3D: Step-by-Step Procedures for Steam Distillation
- 12: Aldehydes and Ketones - The Carbonyl Group
- 12.01: Structure of the Carbonyl Group
- 12.02: Oxidation of Aldehydes and Ketones
- 12.03: Reduction of Carbonyls to Alcohols Using Metal Hydrides
- 12.04: Spectroscopic Properties of Aldehydes and Ketones
- 13: IR Spectroscopy
- 13.01: Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy
- 13.02: Interpreting IR Spectra
- 14: Halogenation of Alkenes - Addition of X