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| Introduction | |
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| Laboratory Safety, Courtesy, and Waste Disposal Techniques | |
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| Melting Points and Boiling Points | |
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| Recrystallization | |
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| Distillation | |
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| Steam Distillation, Vacuum Distillation, and Sublimation | |
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| Extraction | |
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| Thin-Layer Chromatography: Analysis of Analgesics and Isolating Lycopene from Tomato Paste | |
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| Column Chromatography: Fluorenone, Cholesteryl Acetate, Acetylferrocene, and Plant Pigments | |
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| Gas Chromatography: Analysis of Alkene Isomers | |
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| Infrared Spectroscopy | |
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| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | |
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| Mass Spectroscopy | |
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| Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Refractive Indices, and Qualitative Instrumental Organic Analysis | |
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| Computational Chemistry Elimination, Substitution, and Addition | |
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| The SN2 Reaction: 1-Bromobutane | |
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| Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions of Alkyl Halides | |
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| Radical Initiated Chlorination of 1-Chlorobutane | |
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| Alkenes from Alcohols: Cyclohexene from Cyclohexanol | |
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| Bromination and Debromination: Purification of Cholesterol | |
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| Dichlorocarbene Oxidation and Reduction | |
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| Oxidation: Cyclohexanol to Cyclohexanone | |
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| Cyclohexanone to Adipic Acid | |
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| The Cannizzaro Reaction: Simultaneous Synthesis of an Alcohol and an Acid in the Absence of Solvent | |
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| Oxidative Coupling of Alkynes: 2,7-Dimethyl-3,5-octadiyn-2,7-diol | |
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| Catalytic Hydrogenation | |
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| Sodium Borohydride Reduction of 2-Methylcyclohexanone: a Problem in Conformational Analysis | |
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| Epoxidation of Cholesterol | |
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| Aromatic Substitution and Elimination | |
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| Nitration of Methyl Benzoate | |
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| Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Benzene and Dimethoxybenzene; Host-Guest Chemistry | |
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| Alkylation of Mesitylene | |
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| The Friedel-Crafts Reaction: Anthraquinone and Anthracene | |
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| Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Ferrocene: Acetylferrocene | |
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| Reactions of Triphenylmethyl Carbocation, Carbanion, and Radical | |
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| 1,2,3,4-Tetraphenylnaphthalene via Benzyne | |
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| Triptycene via Benzyne Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones | |
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| Aldehydes and Ketones | |
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| Dibenzalacetone by the Aldol Condensation | |
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| Grignard Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol and Benzoic Acid | |
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| The Wittig and Wittig-Horner Reactions Reactions of Carboxylic Acids, Esters, and Amines | |
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| Esterification and Hydrolysis | |
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| Acetylsalicylic Acid (Aspirin) | |
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| Malonic Ester of a Barbiturate | |
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| Amines | |
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| The Sandmeyer Reaction: 1-Bromo-4-chlorobenzene, 2-Iodobenzoic Acid, and 4-Chlorotoluene | |
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| Synthesis and Bioessay of Sulfanilamide and Derivatives | |
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| Dyes and Dyeing | |
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| Martius Yellow | |
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| Diels-Alder Reaction | |
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| Ferrocene [Bis(cyclopentadienyl)iron] | |
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| A Diels-Alder Reaction Puzzle: the Reaction of 2,4-Hexadien-1-ol with Maleic Anhydride | |
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| Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone | |
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| Hexaphenylbenzene and Dimethyl Tetraphenylphthalate | |
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| Derivatives of 1,2-Diphenylethane: a Multistep Synthesis | |
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| The Benzoin Condensation: Catalysis by the Cyanide Ion and Thiamine | |
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| Nitric Acid Oxidation | |
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| Preparation of Benzil from Benzoin; and Synthesis of a Heterocycle: Diphenylquinoxaline | |
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| Borohydride Reduction of a Ketone: Hydrobenzoin from Benzil | |
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| The Synthesis of 2,2-Dimethyl-1,5-dioxolane | |
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| The Acetonide Derivative of a Vicinal Diol | |
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| The 1,4-Addition: Reductive Acetylation of Benzil | |
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| Synthesis of an Alkyne from an Alkene | |
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| Bromination and Dehydrobromination: Stilbene and Diphenylacetylene | |
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| The Perkin Reaction: Synthesis of a-Phenylcinnamic Acid | |
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| Multicomponent Reactions: the Aqueous Passerini Reaction | |
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| Chemiluminescence: Syntheses of Cyalume and Luminol | |
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| Photochemistry: the Synthesis of Benzopinacol Natural Product Chemistry and Biochemistry | |
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| Carbohydrates and Sweeteners | |
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| Virstatin, a Possible Treatment for Cholera | |
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| Biosynthesis of Ethanol and Enzymatic Reactions | |
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| The Synthesis of Natural Products: Pseudopellitierene and Camphor | |
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| Polymers: Synthesis and Recycling | |
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| Searching the Chemical Literature | |