The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual A Student's Guide to Techniques James W. Zubrick Hudson Valley Community College John Wiley & Sons New York • Chichester • Brisbane • Toronto • Singapore [...]... that is completely useful, one that does not need substitutions and deletions Zubrick' s book is this type of resource for undergraduate organic students and their laboratory instructors and professors I must heartily recommend this book to any student taking the first laboratory course in organic chemistry The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual is filled with explanations of necessary techniques in much... getting chemicals or chemical fumes trapped under your contact lenses before you wear them to lab Then don't wear them to lab Ever Touch not thyself Not a Biblical injunction, but a bit of advice You may have just gotten chemicals on your hands, in a concentration that is not noticeable, and sure enough, up go the goggles for an eye wipe with the fingers Enough said There is no "away." Getting rid of chemicals... Distillation 29 Theory of Extraction 304 304 305 306 306 307 307 311 Safety First, Last and Always 2 SAFETY FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS The organic chemistry laboratory is potentially one of the most dangerous of undergraduate laboratories That is why you must have a set of safety guidelines It is a very good idea to pay close attention to these rules, for one very good reason: The penalties are only too real... great care This book is the handiwork of a master teacher C.W Schimelpfenig Dallas Baptist University Dallas, Texas The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual is a book I have known about for a number of years in a variety of developmental stages As it progressed, I watched with interest as Jim Zubrick struggled to achieve a balance between merely conveying information—what most books do — and conveying that... someone elseis going to point a loaded, boiling test tube at you Someone else is going to spill hot, concentrated acid on your body Get the idea? Eating, drinking, or smoking in lab Are you kidding? Eat in a chem lab? Drink in a chem lab? ?? Smoke, and blow yourself up???? Keep it clean Work neatly You don't have to make a fetish out of it, but try to be neat Clean up spills Turn off burners or water or electrical... exploding apparatus (Fig 1) If it is at all possible, treat every chemical (even solids) as if toxic or bad smelling fumes came from it, and carry out as many of the operations in the organic lab as you can inside a hood, unless told otherwise Keep your fingers to yourself Ever practiced "finger chemistry?" You're unprepared so you have a lab book out, and your finger points to the start of a sentence... infirmary is closed and you would have to be transported to the nearest hospital These are a few of the safety guidelines for an organic chemistry laboratory You may have others particular to your own situation ACCIDENTS WILL NOT HAPPEN That's an attitude you might hold while working in the laboratory You are NOT going to do anything, or get anything done to you, that will require medical attention... matters of laboratory technology in a way designed to make them easily understandable to students in a functional context All of these characteristics related to communication efficiency will natu- FOREWORDS xv rally make the laboratories in which the book is used safer labs; the improved understanding they provide serves as natural enhancement to the book's emphatic and detailed approach to laboratory... the necessary scientific detail; on the other hand, he also insisted that a "how to" book for organic chemistry lab need not be written in the dull and confusing prose which so often passes as the lingua franca of science This book demonstrates that he has achieved both goals in admirable fashion In fact, The Survival Manual succeeds very well in following Wittgenstein's dictum that "everything that... able to get help before you die Don't work alone, and don't work at unauthorized times Don't fool around Chemistry is serious business Don't be careless or clown around in lab You can hurt yourself or other people You don't have to be somber about it; just serious Drive defensively Work in the lab as if someone else were going to have an accident that might affect you Keep the goggles on because someone . Sons. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zubrick, James W. The organic chem lab survival manual. Includes indexes. 1. Chemistry, Organic — Laboratory manuals. I. Title. QD261.Z83 1988 547'.0078. The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual A Student's Guide to Techniques James W. Zubrick Hudson Valley Community College John Wiley & . undergraduate organic students and their laboratory instructors and professors. I must heartily recommend this book to any student taking the first laboratory course in organic chemistry. The Organic Chem