OPERATIONAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: echniques, Experiments, and Green Chemistry Applications for Traditional and Microscale Laboratory Courses

By Sylvia Merritt

Build sound laboratory judgment from setup through final verification

Operational Organic Chemistry connects the calculations, apparatus choices, observations, and safety decisions that make experimental work reproducible. Written for traditional and microscale courses, it explains not only how a technique is performed, but why each operational choice affects recovery, purity, exposure, waste, and confidence in the result.

Readers progress from risk assessment, measurement, solvent behavior, and stoichiometry to thermal control, reflux, inert atmospheres, extraction, drying, recrystallization, distillation, chromatography, and physical-property measurement. Dedicated chapters develop practical interpretation of infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass-spectral evidence. Later coverage links monitoring and kinetics to representative transformations, then applies quantitative green chemistry metrics to safer experimental redesign.

Inside you will findStepwise derivations and worked calculations grounded in realistic laboratory decisionsTraditional and microscale apparatus guidance with failure diagnosis and corrective actionSolvable end-of-chapter problems with answers based on the chapter materialGreen metrics for comparing solvent use, waste, energy, recovery, and route efficiencyAn integrated multistep project framework for planning, quality assessment, and reporting

The book is designed for students, instructors, laboratory coordinators, and early researchers who want a coherent bench reference. Its emphasis on evidence, material accounting, and safer substitution helps readers move beyond memorized procedures toward deliberate experimental practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGNSPBVB
• ISBN13: 9798170093182
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.9" x 8.5"