QUALITATIVE ORGANIC ANALYSIS FOR COMPOUND IDENTIFICATION
CONTENTS 1 MELTING POINT DETERMINATION: PURITY AND IDENTITY OF CRYSTALLINE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS 2 RECRYSTALLIZATION: PURIFICATION OF CRYSTALLINE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS 3 DISTILLATION: SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION OF ORGANIC LIQUIDS 4 EXTRACTION: A SEPARATION AND ISOLATION TECHNIQUE 5 ISOLATION OF NATURAL PRODUCTS: CAFFEINE AND EUGENOL CHEMISTRY AT HOME: SPICE ESSENCES 6 CHROMATOGRAPHY: COLUMN, THIN-LAYER, GAS-LIQUID, AND PAPER CHEMISTRY AT HOME: FOOD DYES AND MARKING PENS 7 CONFORMATIONS OF ALKANES AND CYCLOALKANES: AN EXERCISE WITH MOLECULAR MODELS AND COMPUTER MODELING 8 PREPARATION OF ALKENES FROM CYCLOHEXANOL OR 2-METHYL-2-BUTANOL, AND TESTS FOR UNSATURATION 9 CIS-TRANS ISOMERISM IN ALKENES: MODELS AND EXPERIMENTS 10 CYCLOADDITIONS: THE DIELS-ALDER REACTION 11 ELECTROPHILIC AROMATIC SUBSTITUTION 12 STEREOISOMERISM: PRINCIPLES ILLUSTRATED WITH MOLECULAR MODELS, COMPUTER MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS 13 ALKYL HALIDES: STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY IN NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTIONS 14 THE HYDROXYL GROUP: REACTIONS OF ALCOHOLS AND PHENOLS 15 REACTIONS OF ALDEHYDES AND KETONES 16 OXIDATION OF ALCOHOLS AND REDUCTION OF KETONES 17 OXIDATION OF ALDEHYDES TO CARBOXYLIC ACIDS: A GREEN CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT 18 TWO WAYS TO SYNTHESIZE A CARBOXYLIC ACID 19 REACTIONS OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES CHEMISTRY AT HOME: EGGSHELLS AND VINEGAR 20 ESTERS: SYNTHESIS AND SAPONIFICATION OF METHYL BENZOATE CHEMISTRY AT HOME: SAPONIFICATION IS MAKING SOAP 21 SYNTHESIS OF ASPIRIN (ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID) 22 AMINES AND DIAZONIUM COMPOUNDS 23 PREPARATION OF SULFANILAMIDE: A MULTISTEP SYNTHESIS 24 DYES AND DYEING CHEMISTRY AT HOME: NATURES’S INDICATORS AND WHAT THEY INDICATE 25 INFRARED AND NMR SPECTROSCOPY 26 SYNTHESIS OF A HETEROCYCLE: 2-AMINO-4,6-DIMETHYLPYRIMIDINE 27 STORAGE AND RELEASE OF LIGHT ENERGY: BENZOPINACOL AND LUMINOL 28 SYNTHETIC POLYMERS 29 FATS AND OILS; SOAPS AND DETERGENTS CHEMISTRY AT HOME: SOAP AND TALCUM POWDER 30 REACTIONS OF CARBOHYDRATES CHEMISTRY AT HOME: WHERE’S THE STARCH? 31 AMINO ACIDS AND PROTEINS CHEMISTRY AT HOME: ENZYMES ARE NATURE’S CATALYSTS