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Laboratory standards

 

Working standards can be found in our shared Dropbox folder. They include:

 

• general experimental procedures for purification and drying of solvents, preparation, purification and handling of reagents, handling of gases, use of vacuum pumps, carrying out and monitoring reactions, working-up reactions and purifying products, as described in our main reference textbooks and papers:

 

J. Leonard, B. Lygo, G. Procter, Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry, 2nd Ed., Chapman & Hall, 1995;

W. L. F. Armarego, C. L. L. Chai, Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, 5th Ed., Elsevier Science, 2003;

B. S. Furniss, A. J. Hannaford, P. W. G. Smith, A. R. Tatchell, Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, 5th Ed., Longman, 1989;

D. B. G. Williams, M. Lawton, J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 8351-8354 (solvent drying);

D. R. Burfield, K.-H. Lee, R. H. Smithers, J. Org. Chem. 1977, 42, 3060-3065 (solvent drying);

P. H. Dussault, K. R. Woller, Chem. Educ. 1996, 1, 1-6 (solvent recycling);

 

 

• NMR Chemical Shifts of Trace Impurities: Common Laboratory Solvents, Organics, and Gases in Deuterated Solvents Relevant to the
  Organometallic Chemist;

 

• Bond lengths in organic compounds, for use in the refinement of crystal structures from X-ray diffraction data.

 

In addition, we provide original manuals describing the use of some important pieces of equipment. Links to useful sites on laboratory practice can be found here.