Ideally suited for second-year undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory courses, this text explains how to perform operations and prepare a variety of organic compounds. As they learn how to filter a hot solution, recrystallize a solid, distil a liquid, perform an extraction and dry a solution, students will come to understand the theory behind the techniques. The book includes substitutions, additions, eliminations and `name' reactions such as the Grignard reaction and the Wittig synthesis as well as procedures for the preparation of interesting compounds such as aspirin and the alarm pheromone of the honey bee.


About the Author
ADDISON AULT is Professor of Chemistry at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he has taught since 1962.


Book Information
ISBN 9780935702767
Author Addison Ault
Format Hardback
Page Count 672
Imprint University Science Books,U.S.
Publisher University Science Books,U.S.