Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry

This book deals with general information about work in an organic chemistry laboratory, viz. safety, first aid, different types of apparatus and their assemblies used for various types of reactions, stirring arrangements, heating techniques and low temperature experiments. Various methods used for the purification of organic compounds have been described. Besides the normal technique, the book includes information about molecular distillation, chromatography, and electrophoresis. Special emphasis has been given to the methods, which can be used in organic reactions. Various methods, which can be used successfully in the isolation of products from natural sources, have been incorporated. Emphasis has also been given on the isolation of products from oily mixtures using the technique of Liquid-Liquid extraction. Methods for determining the criteria of purity of organic compounds have been discussed. The book also deals with the drying and purification of solvents, the preparation of spectroscopical grade solvents and HPCL solvents. The preparation of commonly used deuterated solvents (which are used for NMR spectroscopy work) is a special feature of this book.