Experimental Organic Chemistry: A Miniscale and Microscale Approach

1. Introduction, Record Keeping, and Laboratory Safety. 2. Techniques and Apparatus. 3. Solids: Recrystallization and Melting Points. 4. Liquids: Distillation and Boiling Points. 5. Extraction. 6. Chromatography. 7. Stereoisomers. 8. Spectral Methods. 9. Alkanes. 10. Alkenes. 11. Alkynes. 12. Dienes: The Diels-Alder Reaction. 13. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Control of a Reaction. 14. Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution: Preparation for Alkyl Halides. 15. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution. 16. Oxidation of Alcohols and Carbonyl Compounds. 17. Reduction Reactions of Double Bonds: Alkenes, Carbonyl Compounds, and Imines. 18. Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds. 19. Organometallic Chemistry. 20. Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives. 21. Multistep Organic Synthesis. 22. Polymers. 23. Carbohydrates. 24. a-Amino Acids and Peptides. 25. Identifying Organic Compounds. 26. The Literature of Organic Chemistry.