Experimental Organic Chemistry : A Miniscale and Microscale Approach / John C. Gilbert and Stephen F. Martin

Providing even more emphasis on inquiry-based learning and student collaboration and featuring three new green experiments and more than a dozen newly developed experiments, this Sixth Edition of Gilbert and Martin's proven EXPERIMENTAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY contains procedures for both miniscale (also known as small scale) and microscale users. The book offers an early focus on equipment, record keeping, and safety in the laboratory, and then guides students step by step through the theoretical and mechanistic principles underlying the experiments and the laboratory techniques needed to perform them with confidence. Students learn how to use a range of experimental techniques to synthesize compounds and analyze their properties, complete multi-step syntheses of organic compounds, and solve structures of unknown compounds. New experiments in Chapter 17 and 18 demonstrate the potential of chiral agents in fostering enantioselectivity and of performing solvent-free reactions. The bioorganic experiment in Chapter 24 reflects the increasing emphasis on bioorganic chemistry in the course and gives students an opportunity to accomplish a mechanistically interesting and synthetically important coupling of two -amino acids to produce a dipeptide.


Features :
Each experiment begins with a thorough discussion of the theory and procedures involved and lays out experimental procedures in a clear format to enhance student understanding.
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Safety is emphasized through "Safety Alerts" and "Wrapping It Up" sections that highlight possible hazards and proper disposal of spent chemicals.
Fascinating "Historical Highlights" familiarize students with the lives of chemical pioneers who have advanced the field of chemistry.
Accurately drawn art shows students how to set up an experiment with confidence.
Margin drawings of equipment remind students about the set up for such techniques as distillation and reflux.