Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual

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Summary: an inexpensive yet effective lab book for undergraduate orga
Review: An inexpensive, yet effective lab manual for undergraduate organic chemistry. The students do not have to buy a hard cover text, full of colors. The reagents used are cheap and, generally, available at low cost. There is great variety of experiments- some are standard syntheses, some are kinetcis, but above all there is a great qualitative analysis chapter. The techniques illustrated in the first few chapters are essential in running high yield syntheses. An excellent set of appendices with subjects like % yield, how to make solutions and how to balance a redox equation. This is a book where one learns how to do expts. without necessarily running a very expensive lab.