Microscale Organic Laboratory: With Multistep and Multiscale Syntheses

I'm using this text for my Organic Chemistry 1 lab. The concepts are outlined very clearly, with many pictures of the apparatus setups and molecule structures. I actually enjoy reading about the techniques and procedures. The authors made learning organic lab techniques easy and interesting. Highly recommended!

The previous reviewers are correct in pointing out that the organization of the book is almost random. Also correct is the statement that end of chapter questions are frequently too challenging for 2nd year students (why would a 1st semester ochem student know how to estimate NMR peaks???). And yeah, there are some glaring omissions in the procedures while way too many words used in most places.I found it surprising that students had to go online to look up a 1 page supplement to the book on refractive index... why was that one page made an online topic? could not possibly have been that it didn't fit. The directions to find it were poor, it took me an hour to find it, and most of my classmates could not. If the author is going to publish that the information is to be found on line, at least give the freaking link so it can be found.Annoyances aside, the information is good and helpful if you can slog through the information. Or find it.

received in the condition promised, This is a good basic book on Microscale labs. worth every penny.

If you're paying full price (approx $240 USD), I promise you that this book will make you furious since it's lab-centric, meaning you'll crack it open at most once or twice a week for a semester with a very high likelihood of procedures being changed due to time scheduling. However, if you were to spend somewhere around $30 (well, $20 in my case), you'll get a modestly decent lab book that's still a long way home from being as practical as an organic chemistry textbook used for studying and lectures.

If I had the tools I would do a few of these experiments on my own,. But I only brought this book to fulfill the textbook requirement for the class.

Better than i expected, fast shipping, thanks so much!

I hate organic but I don't really hate this book. However, my lab instructor must because he uses this book as a guideline and modifies the procedure for our (the class') benefit.

I have had many lab books and this one is the worst. The layout is confusing. While in my experience my lab manuals have been in bullet, short paragraph form, this book was in a longer format. The procedure is not outlined in clear steps and I haven't gone through the entire book yet but in at least one case so far there was a critical part of the procedure left out of the book that my lab TA had to mention. There is also a poor flow of thoughts in the book. Each section requires you to go back and read pages earlier in the book in order to understand what the current lab exercise is about.

Il libro è giunto al termine della terza settimana rispetto alle 2-4 preventivate, quindi perfettamente puntuale. Li libro è giunto in perfette condizioni e risulta essere molto utile per la preparazione di un laboratorio didattico da esegurisi su microscala.

Dieses Buch ist wirklich sehr hilfreich weil ausführliche Beschreibungen und Zeichnungen (Reaktionsgleichungen und Skizzen der benötigten Apparaturen) gegeben werden. In englischer Sprache und trotzdem sehr gut verständlich, flüssig lesbar!