Part I: TOOLS FOR THE ORGANIC LABORATORY.
1. Emergency Procedures and Safe Laboratory Practices.
2. General Laboratory Procedures.
3. Examination of Pure Compounds.
4. Chromatography.
5. Crystallization and Filtration.
6. Extraction and Drying.
7. Distillation and Related Techniques.
8. Introduction to Spectroscopy; Organic Structure Determination.
9. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
10. Infrared Spectroscopy.
11. Mass Spectrometry. 12. Ultraviolet Visible Spectroscopy.
13. Special Laboratory Procedures.
14. The Organic Chemical Literature.

Part II: EXPERIMENTS.
1. Introduction to Organic Microtechniques.
2. Determination of Melting Point.
3. Thin-Layer Chromatography of Analgesics.
4. Column Chromatography.
5. High Performance Liquid Chromatography; Natural Products from Spices.
6. Natural Products by Extraction; Trimyristin and Cholesterol.
7. Caffeine; Isolation of an Alkaloid.
8. Solubility Properties of Covalent Molecules and Their Ionic Salts.
9. Extraction and Crystallization; Acid-Base Properties.
10. Extraction and Crystallization; Acid-Base Properties.
11. Raoult's Law; Gas Chromatography.
12. Fractional Distillation; Gas Chromatography.
13. Free Radical Halogenation; Relative Reactivity by Product Analysis.
14. 2-Chloro-2-methylbutane (tert-Amyl Chloride).
15. Kinetic Investigation of Unimolecular Solvolysis.
16. Methylcyclohexenes; Alcohol Dehydration.
17. Resolution of a Racemic Modification.
18. Diphenylacetylene from Stilbene.
19. Introduction to Infrared Spectroscopy.
20. Divalent Carbon Intermediates; Phase Transfer Catalysis.
21. Homophthalic Acid; Oxidative Cleavage of a Double Bond.
22. Triphenylcarbinol; Addition of a Grignard Reagent to a Ketone.
23. Benzoic Acid; Carbonation of a Grignard Reagent.
24. Rates of Conversion of Alcohols to Alkyl Bromides.
25. The Diels-Alder Reaction of Maleic Anhydride and 1,3-Diphenylisobenzofuran.
26. Oxidation of (-)-Borneol to (-)-Camphor; Specific Rotation.
27. Oxidation of Alcohols to Aldehydes and Ketones.
28. Catalytic Hydrogenation.
29. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Reaction Conditions.
30. Heat of Reaction; Measurement of Resonance Energy.
31. Introduction to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
32. Acetanilide to p Nitroaniline.
33. Aminoacetophenone; Selective Reduction of Nitro.
34. 4-Methylbenzophenone; Friedel-Crafts Acylation.
35. Photoreduction of Aromatic Ketones.
36. Carbocation Rearrangements; Benzopinacolone.
37. Aryl Migratory Aptitudes in Carbocation Rearrangements.
38. Borohydride Reduction of 9-fluorenone.
39. Hydroboration-Oxidation of 1-Hexene.
40. Synthetic Organic Polymers.
41. Electronic Effects of Substituents in Reactions; Acidity Constant Determination.
42. Acetylsalicylic Acid; Preparation of Aspirin.
43. Fischer Esterification.
44. Capryl Chloride and Capramide.
45. Chemiluminescence.
46. Synthesis of Sulfa Drugs; Using a Protected Amino Group.
47. Benzyl Alcohol; Complex Metal Hydride Reductions.
48. 9-Benzal- and 9-Benzylfluorene; Aldol and Cannizzaro Type Reactions.
49. Hexaphenylbenzene; Aldol and Diels-Alder Reactions.
50. Conjugate (Michael) Addition to a, a-Unsaturated Carbonyl.
51. Synthetic Dyes.
52. Forensic Chemistry; Detecting Traces of Blood.
53. Phenanthridone; Beckmann Rearrangement to a Heterocycle.
54. Qualitative Organic Analysis; Classification Tests.
55. Chemical and Spectral Analysis; Unknown Identification.
56. Spectroscopic Identification of an Unknown.
Appendix. Answers to Selected Chapter Exercises.
Index.