Introduction
1.Introduction
2.Laboratory Safety, Courtesy, and Waste Disposal Techniques
3.Melting Points and Boiling Points
4.Recrystallization
5.Distillation
6.Steam Distillation, Vacuum Distillation, and Sublimation
7.Extraction
8.Thin-Layer Chromatography: Analysis of Analgesics and Isolating Lycopene from Tomato Paste
9.Column Chromatography: Fluorenone, Cholesteryl Acetate, Acetylferrocene, and Plant Pigments
10.Gas Chromatography: Analysis of Alkene Isomers
11.Infrared Spectroscopy
12.Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
13.Mass Spectroscopy
14.Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Refractive Indices, and Qualitative Instrumental Organic Analysis
15.Computational Chemistry Elimination, Substitution, and Addition
16.The SN2 Reaction: 1-Bromobutane
17.Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of Alkyl Halides
18.Radical Initiated Chlorination of 1-Chlorobutane
19.Alkenes from Alcohols: Cyclohexene from Cyclohexanol
20.Bromination and Debromination: Purification of Cholesterol
21.Dichlorocarbene Oxidation and Reduction
22.Oxidation: Cyclohexanol to Cyclohexanone; Cyclohexanone to Adipic Acid
23.Pulegone from Citronellol: Oxidation with Pyridinium Chlorochromate
24.Oxidative Coupling of Alkynes: 2,7-Dimethyl-3,5-octadiyn-2,7-diol
25.Catalytic Hydrogenation
26.Sodium Borohydride Reduction of 2-Methylcyclohexanone: A Problem in Conformational Analysis
27.Epoxidation of Cholesterol Aromatic Substitution and Elimination
28.Nitration of Methyl Benzoate
29.Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Benzene and Dimethoxybenzene; Host-Guest Chemistry
30.Alkylation of Mesitylene
31.The Friedel-Crafts Reaction: Anthraquinone and Anthracene
32.Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Ferrocene: Acetylferrocene
33.Reactions of Triphenylmethyl Carbocation, Carbanion, and Radical
34.1,2,3,4-Tetraphenylnaphthalene via Benzyne
35.Triptycene via Benzyne Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones
36.Aldehydes and Ketones
37.Dibenzalacetone by the Aldol Condensation
38.Grignard Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol and Benzoic Acid
39.The Wittig and Wittig-Horner Reactions Reactions of Carboxylic Acids, Esters, and Amines
40.Esterification and Hydrolysis
41.Acetylsalicylic Acid (Aspirin)
42.Malonic Ester of a Barbiturate
43.Amines
44.The Sandmeyer Reaction: 1-Bromo-4-chlorobenzene, 2-Iodobenzoic Acid, and 4-Chlorotoluene
45.Synthesis and Bioessay of Sulfanilamide and Derivatives
46.Dyes and Dyeing
47.Martius Yellow The Diels-Alder and Related Reactions
48.Diels-Alder Reaction
49.Ferrocene [Bis(cyclopentadienyl)iron]
50.p-Terphenyl by the Diels-Alder Reaction
51.Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone
52.Hexaphenylbenzene and Dimethyl Tetraphenylphthalate Derivatives of 1,2-Diphenylethane: A Multistep Synthesis
53.The Benzoin Condensation: Catalysis by the Cyanide Ion and Thiamine
54.Nitric Acid Oxidation; Preparation of Benzil from Benzoin; and Synthesis of a Heterocycle: Diphenylquinoxaline
55.Borohydride Reduction of a Ketone: Hydrobenzoin from Benzil
56.The Synthesis of 2,2-Dimethyl-1,5-dioxolane; The Acetonide Derivative of a Vicinal Diol
57.The 1,4-Addition: Reductive Acetylation of Benzil
58.Synthesis of an Alkyne from an Alkene; Bromination and Dehydrobromination: Stilbene and Diphenylacetylene
59.The Perkin Reaction: Synthesis of a-Phenylcinnamic Acid
60.Decarboxylation: Synthesis of cis-Stilbene Photochemistry
61.Chemiluminescence: Syntheses of Cyalume and Luminol
62.Photochemistry: The Synthesis of Benzopinacol Natural Product Chemistry and Biochemistry
63.Carbohydrates and Sweeteners
64.Biosynthesis of Ethanol
65.Enzymatic Reactions: A Chiral Alcohol from a Ketone and Enzymatic Resolution of DL-Alanine
66.The Synthesis of Natural Products: Pseudopellitierene and Camphor
67.Polymers: Synthesis and Recycling
68.Searching the Chemical Literature