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Microscale Organic Laboratory: with Multistep and Multiscale Syntheses | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dana W. Mayo, Ronald M. Pike, Peter K. Trumper
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 12192
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0471321850
Dewey Decimal Number: 547.0078
EAN: 9780471321859
ASIN: 0471321850
Publication Date: January 21, 2000
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Product Description
- The experimental procedure section is divided into the following four subsections allowing you to effortlessly organize your laboratory time: reagents and equipment, reaction conditions, isolations of product, and purification and characterization.
- A prompt in the text indicates that the experimental apparatus involved in that stage of the experiments is shown in the margin of the text. Warning and Cautions are given in boxes and also indicated in the margins.
- This lab manual allows the flexibility of creating one's own scaling sequence without being tied to prescribed set of quantities.
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 It is not that bad December 15, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is my first semester organic chemistry course. Even though I have been using another book for laboratory "Organic Chemistry Lab [...] by Charles E., Jr. Bell", this book helped me to understand the concepts better (many times the instructor quized us on the reasoning behind an experiment which Bell does not mention).
Moreover, Bell's book is somewhat incomplete. For about 25% of the experiments that I performed, we used hand-outs because Bell's did not handle them correclty.
I think that "developing microscale techniques" section was really good to introduce you to the most important techniques that one must master (which Bell does not mention much either.) I think that this book is not as bad as the other reviewers think, at least, relatively not as bad as they might think.
 A very bad book September 10, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of the worst textbooks I have ever used. Luckily, we only used to for one week...I couldn't imagine having to use it for any longer than that. Unfortunately there isn't an option for zero stars.
The worst book I have EVER had. June 4, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have had some terrible professors, but I have NEVER had a book that was as insufficient and wholly undeveloped in its topic. Mayo et al. may know what they are doing in the laboratory, but they must know NOTHING of writing books to convey knowledge. Someone told me that this is the most widely used book for organic chemistry labs. If that is true, I hate to see the sad state of science in a few years when we start to see all the chemists it produces. Because of the overwhelming difficulty of the problems in this book, students are forced to concentrate on specific answers to the questions that are asked and not on the concepts overall. The result: for all the complexity and effort involved, the student learns NOTHING. The second half of the book outright states (in the intro to Chapter 7) that "the mechanisms ... are more involved and not generally developed at the introductory level." I am an undergraduate student whose second semester of organic chemistry lab far outstrips the two- semester academic textbook.
This book is horrible May 1, 2003
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Chances are you are not buying this book for your home organic lab. You probably are buying this for a class. I feel sorry for you.
Don't buy this! December 16, 1997
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I used this text for my organic labs (2 semesters, for majors). I thought the book was pitiful. From the undergrad's perspective, it was disorganized, unclear, verbose; generally excessive. The black and white pages with black line figures are not exactly a pleasure to read. I HAD to buy it. I hope you don't!
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