Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, Fifth Edition (Paperback)

by W.L.F. Armarego (Author) "Purity is a matter of degree..." (more)
Key Phrases: fractional distn, distd water, vacuum distd, Chem Soc, Org Chem, Chem Ber (more...)

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Review of previous edition:

This monograph remains the bible for practising chemists wishing to know how to dry solvents or purify commercially available laboratory chemicals...The authors have made good use of computerised databases for up to date information and have placed a noticeable emphasis on safety. It is of manageable size and, like its forebears, will be the most commonly used reference book in any chemical or biochemical laboratory. - Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), October 1997 -- Review

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Review of previous edition:

This monograph remains the bible for practising chemists wishing to know how to dry solvents or purify commercially available laboratory chemicals...The authors have made good use of computerised databases for up to date information and have placed a noticeable emphasis on safety. It is of manageable size and, like its forebears, will be the most commonly used reference book in any chemical or biochemical laboratory. - Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), October 1997

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 5 edition (April 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750675713
• ISBN-13: 978-0750675710
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #454,441 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the Organic Chemist, December 31, 1998

By	[e-mail] "garybartley" (Durham, NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, 4th ed. (Paperback)

Like Carey & Sundberg, Jerry March, the Aldrich catalog, and the Merck Index, (etc.), this book should be a benchmate for the Organic Chemist. It is very good when one requires the purification of reagents, or the drying/purification of solvents. The protocols for purification are usually pretreatment followed by distillation or recrystallization, and can be carried out to give anywhere from moderately pure material, to giving the pure, pure substance.

Excellent for the research organic chemistry graduate student or the pharmaceutical industrial research chemist who likes to start with the purest materials, so as to leave only the investigative variables open to question.

However, in industry, although FedEx-ing new and pure reagents (and disposal of the old questionable ones!) is the easiest and encouraged method for research, it is often found that purification is totally appropriate--in these instances, Purification of Laboratory Chemicals (D.D. Perrin & W.L.F. Armarego) is highly recommended.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Essential for Chemists!, November 17, 2000

By	Ray Frazier (Tuttle, OK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, 4th ed. (Paperback)

As a chemist, I am often in need of techniques for purification of various chemicals. Often time is a constraint and the "best" technique may be too time consuming, if one even knows what it is. This text offers several alternatives to the purificatin of most common compounds (especially solvents), including the best way to make the compound pure as well as other known techniques. One can then choose, based on the reaction one is doing whether one needs to use the best techniques or the fastest technique to get mostly pure material or somewhere inbetween. Unfortunately, often the text does not list the actual percent purity that each technique can yield (though it is often easy enough to guess which methodology will yield the best results.) An invaluable resource for any chemist, but especially for graduate students.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the "Synthetic" Chemist, June 5, 2000

By	Craig MACKINNON (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, 4th ed. (Paperback)

This is an indispensible resource for any synthetic chemist, either organic or inorganic (not sure about the biochemical section). This book has concise, informative entries on the purification of a vast number of common solvents and reagents. I don't know how any chemist can survive without having this on his/her bookshelf!