Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Laboratories

Chemical Literature

The following materials are available at the Chemistry Library, as either reserve, reference, or circulating material. You could find them by doing a search in Madcat or you could also find some of these materials online by clicking on the link.


Specific Authors, Compounds, Chemical Subjects, Registry numbers and IUPAC names: Chemical Abstracts

Physical Properties of Chemical Compounds:

Other useful references:

  • Preparation of Organic Intermediates
  • Reagents for Organic Synthesis
  • Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods
  • Organic Syntheses
  • Organic Syntheses, Collective Volumes
  • Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • New Methods of Preparative Organic Chemistry
  • Purification of Laboratory Chemicals

For General Information on Nomenclature, Reactions and Mechanisms:

  • Nomenclature in Organic Chemistry
  • The Ring Index
  • Comprehensive Organic Chemistry
  • Comprehensive Organic Transformations (Larock)
  • Advanced Organic Chemistry, Vols. A and B (Carey and Sundberg)
  • Advanced Organic Chemistry (March)
  • Name Reactions and Reagents in Organic Synthesis
  • Organic Reactions

Collections of Spectra:

  • Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds (Silverstein)
  • High Resolution NMR Spectra Catalog (Varian)
  • Sadtler Standard Spectra
  • Aldrich Library of 13C and 1H FT-NMR Spectra
  • Aldrich Library of IR Spectra
  • Aldrich Library of FT-IR Spectra

 

Online Resources

Tired of books? The internet is full of resources that you could also use for the laboratory courses. Here are a couple of links that might help you in your experiments. You could also find links which contain more lecture-related material in Organic Chemistry Links.

 

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