TY - BOOK AU - Leonard, John. AU - Lygo, Barry. AU - Procte, Garry. TI - Advanced practical organic chemistry SN - 9781439860977 U1 - 547 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - CRC Press KW - Practical organic chemistry KW - Organic compounds--Synthesis KW - Organic compounds N1 - General introduction -- Safety -- Keeping records of laboratory work -- Equipping the laboratory and the bench -- Purification and drying of solvents -- Reagents : preparation, purification, and handling -- Gases -- Vacuum pumps -- Carrying out the reaction -- Working up the reaction -- Purification -- Small-scale reactions -- Large-scale reactions -- Special procedures -- Characterization -- Troubleshooting : what to do when things don't work -- The chemical literature -- Appendix 1. Properties of common solvents -- Appendix 2. Properties of common gases -- Appendix 3. Approximate pKa values for some common reagents versus common bases -- Appendix 4. Common Bronsted acids -- Appendix 5. Common Lewis acids -- Appendix 6. Common reducing reagents -- Appendix 7. Common oxidizing reagents ER -