"Part I: Safety Considerations, Commonly Used Laboratory Equipment, Glassware and Common Laboratory Techniques
1. Safety Considerations in a Chemistry Laboratory
2. Commonly Used Laboratory Equipment and Glassware
3. Common Laboratory Techniques for Purification and Separation
4. Criterion for Purity
5. Selected Experiments Based on the Concepts learnt so far
Part II: Small Scale Preparations
6. Small Scale Preparations for an Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Appendix I
Bibliography
Index "

"• Written in two parts, the first part is devoted to the basic concepts of safety, instrumentation, apparatus, techniques for purification and separation of organic compounds. The second part is devoted to preparatory methods for synthesis of organic compounds.
• Some new green preparations which are now available have been included wherever the information was available.
• Gives in-depth visual description of the safety methods, experimental setup, apparatus setup and end products obtained in the preparations wherever required.
• The background of the reaction, safety considerations for handling of reagents, chemicals and products, concepts learnt from the experiments and utility of the exercise have been given special attention.
• A special note of the things to remember while performing the experiments, based on the experience of the authors, has been included especially for the benefit of the students. "