Purification of Laboratory Chemicals

by W.L.F. Armarego

Overview

The purpose of this book is to help chemists, biochemists and other scientists purify the chemical reagents that they use in their work. Despite the fact that commercially available chemicals are often of a very high quality, and quite satisfactory for some applications within science and technology, it is becoming almost as important to know what impurities are present and make allowance for them as to remove them completely. This book will show you how.

Chapter 1 has been reorganized and updated, and most of it is in smaller print in order not to increase the size of the book. Chapters 2 and 5 have been similarly altered and combined into one chapter, Chapter 2, again in order to save pages. 800 and 350 entries have been added to Chapter 3 (25% increase) and Chapter 4 (44% increase) respectively, and 400 entries (310% increase) were added to Chapter 5 (Chapter 6 in the third edition) making a total of 5700 entries, all resulting in an increase from 319 to 529 pages, i.e. ca 35%. This considerably expanded and revised fourth edition includes much new material dealing with modern reagents for natural products chemistry, protein biochemistry and molecular biology. It also includes many individual compounds not previously covered, and more information is given for most entries, including melting and boiling points, molecular weights, refractive indexes, densities and CAS registry numbers, as well as likely contaminants and storage conditions in appropriate cases.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128054567
Publisher:	Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1198
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Wilfred L. F. Armarego graduated BSc (Hons) in 1953 and PhD from the University of London in 1956 and came to Australia in that year. After two years at the Central Research Laboratories (ICIANZ) in Melbourne, where he worked on plant growth substances, and one year on potentially carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the University of Melbourne as Senior Demonstrator in Organic Chemistry, he joined the Department of Medical Chemistry as a Research Fellow in 1960. He became a Fellow in 1963 and was awarded a DSc degree (London) in 1968. He was promoted to Senior Fellow in 1967 and began research work on the biochemistry and molecular biology of pteridine-requiring enzymes related to the inherited metabolic disease phenylketonuria and its variants. He was head of the Protein Biochemistry Group and Pteridine Biochemistry Laboratory until his retirement in 1996. He is now a visiting fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, and member of the editorial boards of 'Medicinal Research Reviews' and 'Pteridines' journals.
Wilfred L. F. Armarego graduated BSc (Hons) in 1953 and PhD from the University of London in 1956 and came to Australia in that year. After two years at the Central Research Laboratories (ICIANZ) in Melbourne, where he worked on plant growth substances, and one year on potentially carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the University of Melbourne as Senior Demonstrator in Organic Chemistry, he joined the Department of Medical Chemistry as a Research Fellow in 1960. He became a Fellow in 1963 and was awarded a DSc degree (London) in 1968. He was promoted to Senior Fellow in 1967 and began research work on the biochemistry and molecular biology of pteridine-requiring enzymes related to the inherited metabolic disease phenylketonuria and its variants. He was head of the Protein Biochemistry Group and Pteridine Biochemistry Laboratory until his retirement in 1996. He is now a visiting fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, and member of the editorial boards of ‘Medicinal Research Reviews’ and ‘Pteridines’ journals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: COMMON PHYSICAL TECHNIQUES USED IN PURIFICATION

Chapter 2: CHEMICAL METHODS USED IN PURIFICATION

Chapter 3: THE FUTURE OF PURIFICATION

Chapter 4: PURIFICATION OF ORGANIC CHEMICALS

Chapter 5: PURIFICATION OF INORGANIC AND METAL-ORGANIC CHEMICALS

Chapter 6: PURIFICATION OF BIOCHEMICALS AND RELATED PRODUCTS

GENERAL SUBJECT INDEX

CAS Registry Numbers Index

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The only comprehensive chemical purification reference; 'the most commonly used reference book in any chemical or biochemical laboratory'

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Shows chemists, biochemists, and other scientists how to purify chemical reagents. Overviews physical techniques and chemical methods currently used for purification in laboratories, with general procedures for purifying some classes of organic compounds, then offers alphabetical entries on substances with brief details on how they can be purified, in chapters on organic, inorganic, and metal- organic chemicals, and biochemicals and related products. Entries include literature references. This fourth edition contains new material on modern reagents and compounds not previously covered, and more information in entries, such as melting and boiling points, molecular weights, refractive indexes, and CAS registry numbers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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"...continues to be a fundamental text for all chemical laboratory operators, whether they be research, analysis or production, which require a reliable and complete source on the purification to be applied to reagents or chemical intermediates of interest." (Google translation) —La Chimica e l’Industria

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