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Organic Chemistry Labs

Course Number: CH202/CH203/CH206/CH207 (Lab)

Welcome to the course guide for the lab component of CH202, CH203, CH206, and CH207. This guide highlights some of the library resources on general lab safety. It helps you find safety data sheets (SDSs), chemical and physical properties, and relevant background information for your experiments. It also assists you with citations.

If you have any questions, please contact your Chemistry Librarian, Siu at siyu@wlu.ca

Lab Safety

Handbook for Laboratory Safety (eBook, 2022)

  • Chapters include personal protective equipment, working safely with chemicals, biohazards and radioactive materials, waste management, and handling accidents

 

Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Management of Chemical Hazards (eBook, 2011)

  • Chapters include working safely with chemicals and lab equipment, and waste management
Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

SDS Search (1 million+ SDSs)

  • Maintained by Chemical Safety Software, a private, for-profit chemical environmental management company

 

ChemSpider (100 million+ chemicals)

  • SDSs sourced from various chemical companies accessible under a compound's Vendors tap (the Vendors tap appears on a result page after your search)
Chemical and Physical Properties

ChemSpider

  • A Royal Society of Chemistry database with easy text and structure search, and access to over 100 million chemicals

 

PubChem

  • A National Institutes of Health chemistry database for authoritative chemical information

 

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

  • A comprehensive reference source for properties, data and constants in chemistry and physics
  • To find properties, click on the Flask icon in the top toolbar (desktop mode) or via the multi-menu button (mobile mode) to enter the Search Chemicals page
    • You can then search by Chemical Name, Molecular Formula or CAS Registry No. using the search boxes under Value
Background Concepts, Lab Techniques and Calculation Examples

The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual: A Student's Guide to Techniques (eBook, 2016)

  • Contains experimental procedures and tips relevant to organic chemistry labs

 

LibreTexts Chemistry Library

  • Contains various open educational resources (OERs) on reactions and lab techniques relevant to your organic lab experiments
  • Search using the How can we help you? search box
Green Chemistry

Green Chemistry Tutorial Videos and Application Examples

Green Chemistry Video Series 

  • Produced by the Green Chemistry Initiative at the University of Toronto

12 Principles of Green Chemistry

  • Produced by the American Chemical Society with extensive background and additional resource links

Real-Life Application Examples

  • Produced by MilliporeSigma

 

Test Your Knowledge (Interactive Multiple Choice Questions)

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Citing Sources

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