Experimental Organic Chemistry

Contents: 1. Laboratory methods. 2. General processes: hydrocarbons of the methane series. 3. Unsaturated hydrocarbons. 4. Alcohols. 5. Acids. 6. Ethers, esters and anhydrides. 7. Aldehydes and ketones. 8. Amines and amides. 9. Cyanogen and related compounds. 10. Halogen compounds. 11. Compounds containing two unlike substituents. 12. Carbohydrates. 13. Compounds containing sulphur. 14. Uric acid and related compounds. 15. Aromatic hydrocarbons. 16. Nitro compounds and sulphonic acids. 17. Halogen derivatives of aromatic hydrocarbons. 18. Aromatic amines. 19. Diazo compounds. 20. Aromatic alcohols, phenols, and ethers. 21. Aromatic acids. 22. Aromatic aldehydes, ketones, and quinones. 23. Aromatic compounds containing two or more unlike groups. 24. Dyes and dyeing. 25. Heteroyclic compounds. 26. Proteins. 27. The identification of organic compounds. Appendix.

"This book is designed primarily to be used as a laboratory guide in connection with courses in organic chemistry in which the student follows in the laboratory the subject as developed in the class-room. An attempt has been made to furnish directions for experiments to illustrate the methods of preparation and the chemical properties of the more important classes of organic compounds. As a consequence, the student following the work as given, comes in contact with many substances of importance which are not handled by one whose laboratory work consists solely in the preparation of a few compounds. For example, directions are given in considerable detail for experiments which illustrate the properties of fatty amines, hydroxyl acids, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, etc., subjects which receive scant, if any, attention in many laboratory courses in organic chemistry." (jacket)