THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE ORGANIC LABORATORY: With Microscale and Standard Scale Experiments . Fifth Edition

Integrating 56 microscale and standard scale procedures and experiments, this comprehensive organic laboratory text allows all programs--even those that cannot afford a large investment in commercial kits--to complete effective microscale experiments. The Fifth Edition now features Discovery, Cooperative-Discovery, and Combination labs. Background chapters guide students through laboratory techniques, enabling them to work as real world chemists. This lab manual covers treatment of safety and hazardous waste disposal; coverage of laboratory techniques for the handling, synthesis, separation, and purification of organic compounds; and inclusion of spectroscopic methods for the identification of compounds.

John A. Landgrebe earned his Bachelor of Science at the University of California, Berkeley and his Doctorate at the University of Illinois. He is now a professor emeritus at the University of Kansas. His research interests include organic chemistry: reaction mechanisms and synthetic potential of new reactions involving reactive intermediates in solution. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific articles and reviews in a variety of internationally recognized journals.