Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry

By B. Lygo and J. Leonard

Book Overview

With an emphasis on techniques commonly used in organic syntheses, Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry, Second Edition draws on the extensive experience of the authors and their associations with some of the world's leading laboratories of synthetic organic chemistry. In this edition, all figures have been re-drawn to bring them up to the highest possible standard, and the text has been thoroughly revised. It is designed primarily for postgraduate, advanced undergraduate and industrial organic chemists, particularly those involved in pharmaceutical, agrochemical and other areas of fine chemical research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0751402001
• ISBN13: 9780751402001
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Useful book for synthetic organic chemist

This book is a great book to learn about doing synthetic organic chemistry in the laboratory. It touches every area where a synthetic organic chemist may have problem. It's a good book in every respect. As with all books there is room for improvement. Some aspects needs to be more detailed and specific. This will make the book to be the best in market.

Highly Recommended

As a physical chemist/spectroscopist by training who suddenly found myself needing to synthesize & characterize some model compounds for my experiments, I found this book to be a very helpful review of modern synthetic techniques, particularly in regards to purifying starting materials, dealing with air-sensitive compounds, and monitoring the reaction's progress. Definitely a recommended reference for any chemist. It's companion, "Advanced Practical Inorganic and Metalorganic Chemistry", is also highly recommended, though if I had to choose between the two I'd say that "Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry" is most useful.

Organic Chemists and Students Must Have!

The book discusses fundamental techniques in organic laboratory. Topics that I found very useful are running the reaction (i.e. air-sensitive and water-sensitive chemistry), monitoring reaction (i.e.thin-layer chromatography), working up reaction (have you wondered why ammonium chloride is a good reagent to work up the reaction? how to efficiently separate layers without emulsions?, etc), purifying compounds (i.e. distillation, recrystallization, determining the sizes of columns, choice of eluting solvents,...) The book should be on the shelf of every chemist.