Modern projects and experiments in organic chemistry : miniscale and Williamson microscale / Jerry R. Mohrig ... [and others]

Includes bibliographical references

PART 1 EXPERIMENTS 1. Extraction of Caffeine from Tea 2. Purification and Thin-Layer Chromatographic Analysis of Caffeine 3. Synthesis of Ethanol by Fermentation of Sucrose 4. Synthesis of Salicylic Acid 5. Analgesics and Synthesis of Aspirin 6. Isolation of Essential Oil from Plants 7. Computational Chemistry 8. Radical Halogenation Reactions 9. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions 10. E2 Elimination of 2-Bromoheptane—Influence of the Base 11. Dehydration of Alcohols 12. Synthesis of Esters from Alcohols 13. Green Chemistry—Oxidation of Cyclohexanol Using Sodium Hypochlorite 14. Oxidation of Cinnamyl Alcohol Using Pyridinium Chlorochromate 15. Grignard Syntheses 16. Addition Reactions of Alkenes 17. Synthesis of Polystyrene 18. Phase Transfer Catalysis—Synthesis of Butyl Benzoate 19. Diels-Alder Reaction 20. Selectivity in the Bromination of Acetanilide and p-Methylacetanilide 21. Acetylation of Ferrocene 22. Alkylation of 1,4-Dimethoxybenzene 23. Kinetic Versus Thermodynamic Control in Friedel-Crafts Reactions—Alkylation of Chlorobenzene 24. Reduction Reactions of 3-Nitroacetophenone—Comparison of Sn/HCl and NaBH4 25. Horner-Emmons-Wittig Synthesis of Methyl 4-Methoxy-E-Cinnamate 26. Synthesis of Triphenylmethane Dyes—Crystal Violet and Malachite Green 27. Enolate Chemistry—The Synthesis of trans-1,2 Dibenzoylcyclopropane by Ring Closure 28. Amide Chemistry PART 2. PROJECTS 1. Identification of a White Solid—A Team Approach 2. Separation of a Hydrocarbon, Carboxylic Acid, Amine Mixture 3. Hydrolysis of an Unknown Ester 4. Interconversion of 4-tert-Butylcyclohexanol and 4-tert-Butylcyclohexanone 5. Synthesis of 1-Bromobutane and a Grignard Synthesis of an Alcohol 6. E1/E2 Elimination Reactions 7. Synthesis and Hydroboration-Oxidation of 1-Phenylcyclohexene 8. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution—The Diacetylation of Ferrocene 9. Stereochemistry of Electrophilic Addition to an Alkene 10. Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of Dienophiles to 2,3-Dimethyl-1,3-Butadiene 11. Aldol-Dehydration Using Unknown Aldehydes and Ketones 12. Biochemical Catalysis and the Stereochemistry of Sodium Borohydride Reduction 13. Syntheses Starting with Haloalkanes 14. Sugars: The Glucose Pentaacetates 15. Resolution of Dimethyl 4-Cyclohexene-cis-1,2-Dicarboxylate by Enzymatic Hydrolysis