Advice Needed for (yet another) Newbee

qwerty · Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:58 pm

Could anyone give me some advice on what books i could buy to learn basic lab proceedures and to learn about such terms as the following - 'refluxing' - 'the solvent was removed' - 'distilled in a vacumn' - 'washed out' - 'extracted' basification' etc....

I hope i dont get flamed for posting this but i want to buy some books to cover these subjects but i dont know where to start or what books would be worthwhile and what books would be a waste of cash.

If someone could give me the benefit of their experience i would appreciate it.

Thankyou

qwerty

primathon · modified

Grab a beginner-level organic chemistry textbook from your local University, or order something from amazon. That ought to at least get you up to speed.

qwerty · Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:11 pm

thanks there were also some links to movies outlining certain basic proceedure but i cant find them now - can anyone assist?

regards

qwerty

Elementary · Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:20 pm

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA1/R1MAIN/CD1R0.HTM

Ephoton · Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:32 pm

its just plug and pray dude

qwerty · Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:26 pm

thanks again -

qwerty

Ephoton · Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:32 am

now that i think about it I have yet to see a book with just glass rigs
for all organic reactions.
theres that organic survival manual by zubrick (i think)
then Organic synthises 1 - 5 has a few setups in it.
these would probably cover most of the way to anything
near what is done here.
these books can be found in a university or ordered online.

i would take a long look at ketene lamps if thinking of aquiring
a lab setup. there were quite a few plans floating on the hive for these.
AA is a lot more usefull than just p2p

shedevil · Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:44 am

chemistry for dummies, good starting point for the chemistry ignorant .