THE BASICS.

Laboratory Safety.

Basic Concepts.

Basic Operations.

THE EXPERIMENTS.

Recrystallization and Melting Point.

Extraction.

Distillation-Seperation and Purification of Organic Liquids.

Gas Chromatography.

Thin-Layer Chromatography.

Column Chromatography.

High-Performance Liquid Chromatography.

Refractometry and Polarimetry.

Alcohols and Alkenes.

Alkyl Halides.

Acid-Base Extraction.

Phenols and Ethers.

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution.

Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution.

Chemical Kinetics.

Diels-Alder Reaction.

Aldehydes and Ketones.

Oxidation-Reduction.

Esters.

Multistep Synthesis.

Molecules of Life.

Lipids.

Polymers.

Dyes and Pigments.

Bioorganic Chemistry.

Molecules of Heredity.

SPECTROSCOPY.

Absorption Spectroscopy.

Infrared Spectroscopy.

Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Mass Spectroscopy.

Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises.

Credits.

Index.