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Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual

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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.

The labs in the book gives detailed instructions and steps for the procedures as well explain in detail why the labs are important. The diagrams also helps visualize how the lab set up is suppose to look for the distilling and extractions for the lab. For some of us college students who did forget how to find a %yield there is a refresher lab near the end in which explain how to find it...

Perfect/new condition with VERY fast shipping. Cheapest price I could find, and was significantly cheaper than elsewhere. I had the first lab, and ordered the manual that night assuming that it would not arrive before my next lab, but it did! I was very pleasantly surprised. Thanks!