Background to the Project and Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Laboratory Safety
2. Reduction of Camphor
3. Grignard Reaction: Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol and Benzoic acid
4. Synthesis of Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone
5. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
Part A (Reactivity of Aromatic Compounds)
Part B (Nitration of Methyl benzoate)
Part C (Friedel-Crafts Acylation)
6. Functional Groups—Identi cation of Unknowns
7. Diazonium Salt Chemistry
Part A (Sandmeyer Reaction)
Part B (Azo coupling: Synthesis of Methyl Orange)
8. Diels-Alder Reaction
9. Wittig Reaction: Synthesis of trans -9-(2-phenylethenyl) anthracene
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Kenneth
Laali
Kenneth K. Laali is Presidential Professor of Chemistry at University of North Florida and previously served as the Founding Chair of Chemistry. He completed his PhD in the UK at University of Manchester in 1977 and after postdoctoral stints at King’s College London, University of Strasbourg, University of Amsterdam, and at ETH-Zurich, he moved to University of Southern California to work with Prof. George Olah. He began his independent academic career at Kent State University in 1985 where he went through the ranks and became full professor in 1996. In 2009, he moved to UNF. During Kent State era Kenneth Laali taught a wide variety of undergraduate, graduate, and special topics courses, and since moving to UNF, he has been teaching organic lecture and laboratory, advanced organic, and advanced topic electives. Prof. Laali has authored and coauthored over 220 peer-reviewed publications and several books and monographs. The motivation to author Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual grew out of the need for a more relevant, focused, lab course with experiments and ancillary mechanistic discussions that more closely relate to and compliment the material discussed in organic lecture course.