Organic Chemist's Desk Reference, Second Edition

Fully updated, this second edition gathers information from essential chemistry resources to offer a convenient guide to the principles, techniques, and methods that organic chemistry researchers and lab workers require every day. It provides quick access to the properties of reagents and solvents, freezing mixtures, and drying agents. It also covers hazardous storage and disposal and adds tables of spectroscopic data that include NMR shift values, and IR and UV absorption bands. It also provides a glossary of common terms, as well as hints for searching the chemical literature. This work also meets the needs of those in adjacent subject areas such as biochemistry and pharmacology.

Table of Contents:
The Organic Chemistry Literature Abstracting and Other Current Awareness Services Principal Electronic Dictionaries Useful Reference Works and Review Series Patents, Including Patent Awareness Services Cheminformatics Companies Primary Journals Endnotes Nomenclature Fundamentals IUPAC Nomenclature CAS Nomenclature Types of Name Constructing a Systematic Name Nomenclature of Ring Systems Ring Systems (General) Bridged Ring Systems Spiro Compounds Heterocyclic Ring Systems Ring Assemblies Ring Fusion Names Nomenclature of Individual Classes of Compound Carbohydrates Alditols and Cyclitols Amino Acids and Peptides Natural Products (General) Steroids Lipids Carotenoids Lignans Nucleotides and Nucleosides Tetrapyrroles Organoboron Compounds Organophosphorus (and Organoarsenic) Compounds Azo and Azoxy Compounds Labelled Compounds Tautomeric Compounds Acronyms and Miscellaneous Terms Used in Describing Organic Molecules Abbreviations and Acronyms for Reagents and Protecting Groups in Organic Chemistry Glossary of Miscellaneous Terms and Techniques Used in Nomenclature, Including Colloquial Terms Stereochemistry The Sequence Rule: R and S Graphical and Textual Representations of Stereochemistry Chiral Molecules with No Centres of Chirality E and Z The D,L-System Descriptors and Terms Used in Stereochemistry Graphical Representation of Organic Compounds Zigzag Natta Projection Stereochemistry CAS Numbers, InChI, and Other Identifiers CAS Registry Numbers InChI Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) Molecular Formulae The Hill System Chemical Abstracts Conventions Checking Molecular Formulae Chemical Hazard Information for the Laboratory Hazard and Risk Assessment Physical and Reactive Chemical Hazards Health Hazards Handling and Storage of Chemicals Hazardous Reaction Mixtures Disposal of Chemicals Solvents Peroxide-Forming Chemicals Further Literature Sources Spectroscopy Infrared Spectroscopy Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Mass Spectrometry Introduction Ionisation Techniques and Mass Spectrometer Systems Interpreting Mass Spectra and Molecular Mass Sample Introduction and Solvent Systems for Electrospray Mass Spectrometry Common Adducts and Contaminants in Mass Spectra MALDI Matrices Fragment Ions and Neutral Losses Natural Abundance and Isotopic Masses of Selected Isotopes and Nuclear Particles Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Commonly Used in Mass Spectrometry Crystallography Introduction Definitions Crystallographic Point Groups Space Groups Reciprocal Lattice Examples of Organic Crystals CIF Data Format Bragg’s Law and the X-Ray Spectrum Crystal Specimen Preparation for X-Ray Analysis Chromatographic Chiral Separation Types of Molecular Interactions Diastereomeric Compounds and Complexes Chiral Mobile Phases Chiral Stationary Phases Laboratory Data and SI Units Solvents Buffer Solutions Acid and Base Dissociation Constants Resolving Agents Freezing Mixtures Materials Used for Heating Baths Drying Agents Pressure-Temperature Nomograph SI Units Languages A German-English Dictionary Russian and Greek Alphabets SI Units Index

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Review :
This book is a collection of very valuable information that is routinely used. ... The list of acronyms and informal names will be highly valuable to younger researchers. ... this is an excellent collection of material that would be a worthy addition to any organic chemistry lab. -Paul E. Floreancig, writing in Journal of Medical Chemistry