A Microscale Approach to Organic Laboratory Techniques

A continued emphasis on Green Chemistry decreases the need for hazardous waste disposal, leading to reduced contamination of the environment. Green Chemistry experiments use less toxic reactants and solvents. Almost all experiments have been reduced in scale compared to traditional macroscale experiments.

An alternative way of approaching qualitative analysis that makes extensive use of spectroscopy to solve the structure of organic unknowns. This approach not only shows students how to solve structures in a more modern way, similar to that used in a research laboratory, but also reduces waste considerably.

Open-ended experiments allow students to "write" their own experimental procedures and make their own discoveries.

Infrared, proton NMR, and 13C NMR spectroscopy is incorporated into many experiments. Some experiments also have an option to use gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.