Microscale Organic Laboratory: With Multistep and Multiscale Syntheses

by Dana W. Mayo

Book Overview

This is a laboratory text for the mainstream organic chemistry course taught at both two and four year schools, featuring both microscale experiments and options for scaling up appropriate experiments. It provides complete coverage of organic laboratory experiments and techniques with a strong emphasis on modern laboratory instrumentation, a sharp focus on safety in the lab, excellent pre- and post-lab exercises, and multi-step experiments. There...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471321850
• ISBN13: 9780471321859
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.4" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

good book

This is a good organic textbook, but I think a book by other writers would be better.

It is not that bad

This is my first semester organic chemistry course. Even though I have been using another book for laboratory "Organic Chemistry Lab [...] by Charles E., Jr. Bell", this book helped me to understand the concepts better (many times the instructor quized us on the reasoning behind an experiment which Bell does not mention). Moreover, Bell's book is somewhat incomplete. For about 25% of the experiments that I performed, we used hand-outs because Bell's did not handle them correclty. I think that "developing microscale techniques" section was really good to introduce you to the most important techniques that one must master (which Bell does not mention much either.) I think that this book is not as bad as the other reviewers think, at least, relatively not as bad as they might think.