Practical General Chemistry for the Students of Medical Group

.. ….. This laboratory manual book of general chemistry has been compiled primarily to cover the requirement of B.Sc. course for Veterinary Medicine Colleges at Iraqi Universities. Moreover, since the introductory work has been given in considerable detail, the book is suitable at the same time, for the pharmacy students.

For the more advanced study, we have extended the section on quantitative semi-micro analysis, and included a section dealing with special techniques in separation and purification, namely adsorption chromatography, thin layer and paper chromatography, as well as ion-exchange processes.

The preparations of organic compounds are selected to include single and multi-step reactions: for this purpose we have added, for example, the preparations of Aspirin, Soap, Benzocaine and Barbituric acid. In this section of organic preparations in particular, this noted investigation of each synthesis has frequently enabled unexpected simplifications and economies to be introduced, more particularly as many text-books still contain experimental directions.

In chapter six, qualitative organic analysis, are dealing with the reactions and identification of organic compounds. Quite apart from the importance of these reactions for identification purposes, encouragement is thereby given to the student to gain experience in small-scale preparative work. The reactions and identification of organic compounds, has been strictly limited to the commoner members of each of the more important classes of organic compounds. This work, consisting chiefly of reactions carried out on the test tube scale, should be of great value to the student, who, if he carries out the reactions intelligently, should thereby effectively consolidate his theoretical knowledge.

The combination of theory and practice will both simplify and elucidate the practical study of organic chemistry, and enable the student to visualize his practical work as an orderly whole and not as a vast number of isolated and unrelated experiments.