Key Features of This Edition:

• Provides information on safety, glassware, lab cleanup, collection and disposal of waste, preparation of the laboratory notebook, and use of the chemical literature.
• Provides clear instructions on how to perform the procedures that are used.
• Appeals to the esthetic dimension by offering experiments in a variety of scales –from micro scale to semi-micro and to 5- and 10-gram scale.
• Includes descriptions of the interpretation of IR, UV/Vis, NMR and mass spectra.
• Gives procedures for the isolation of organic compounds from familiar materials such as nutmeg, cloves, citrus rind, tea, cola, NoDoz, aspirin, ibuprofen, milk and gallstones.
• Gives “recipes” for the preparation of organic compounds that illustrate many of the reactions that are discussed in the lecture part of the course.
• Gives procedures for the preparation of compounds with interesting properties: compounds that produce light, change color when heated, have different colors in different solvents, or turn blue in the sun.
• Includes the famous “bootstrap synthesis”: the preparation of two molecules from one.
• Includes procedures for the preparation of 7 different compounds from vanillin.