本书根据我国高校有机化学实验项目特点，结合国外有机化学实验内容，围绕实验安全、正确操作实验相关技术、实验基本技能、波谱方法在有机化学实验中的应用以及有机化学实验项目等内容展开，其中本教材率先引入了英国《危险健康控制》(Control of Substances Hazardous to Health(COSHH))系统，详细介绍了评估化学品安全性的方法，强调了实验安全的重要性；在正确操作实验相关技术部分，对有机化学实验中常用到的称量法、药品转移法、加热冷却法、玻璃仪器清洗法等均做了详细介绍；在实验基本技能部分，对回流、过滤、熔沸点测定、重结晶、干燥、萃取、旋转蒸发等重要有机合成操作技能进行了详细的讲解，并对原理进行了简介；波谱方法在有机化学实验中的应用部分，对常用的四大波谱方法的机理和操作进行了简单的介绍；实验部分，则包括了《环己烷的纯化》等共35个有机化学实验，其中《由Robinson关环反应制备双甲酮》等近8个实验引进自雷丁大学有机化学实验项目，并进行了相应的改编。

1 Introduction
1.1 Safety in the Laboratory
1.2 Chemical Hazards
1.3 Use of a COSHH Form
1.4 Pre-lab Reports or Notebooks Used in the Laboratory
1.5 Lab Reports
1.6 Samples of Reports and COSHH Form
1.7 Commonly Used Laboratory Glassware
2 Carrying out an Experiment
2.1 Measurements in a Laboratory
2.2 Transferring Reagents
2.3 Heating and Cooling Methods
2.4 Setting up a Reaction
2.5 Methods for Glassware Cleaning
2.6 Literature Investigation for the Experiment
3 Basic Techniques in Organic Laboratory
3.1 Assembling Glassware
3.2 Refluxing
3.3 Simple Inert Gas Protection
3.4 Smelling a Chemical
3.5 Boiling Point and Distillation
3.6 Melting Points
3.7 Sublimation
3.8 Filtration
3.9 Recrystallization
3.10 Drying Organic Solvents
3.11 Drying Organic Solutions
3.12 Drying Solid Organic Compounds
3.13 Extraction
3.14 Rota-evaporation
3.15 Chromatography
3.15.1 Thin-Layer Chromatography
3.15.2 Flash Chromatography
3.15.3 High Performance Liquid Chromatography
3.15.4 Gas Chromatography
4 Application of Spectroscopy in Organic Laboratory
4. 1 Introduction
4. 2 Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy
4. 3 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
4. 4 Mass Spectrometry
4. 5 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
5 Organic Experiments
5.1 Purification of Liquids by Distillation
5.2 Purification of Organic Compounds by Extraction
5.3 Purification of Solids by Recrystallization
5.4 Purification of Cyclohexane
5.5 Preparation of Bromoethane
5.6 Synthesis of Ethyl Acetate
5.7 Synthesis of Benzoin
5.8 Synthesis of Cinnamic Acid by the Perkin Reaction
5.9 Synthesis of Cinnamic Acid by the Knoevenagel Condensation
5.10 Synthesis of Methyl Orange
5.11 Synthesis of Ethyl Benzoate
5.12 The Diels-Alder Reaction
5.13 Synthesis of Acetanilide
5.14 Bromination of Acetanilide
5.15 Deprotection of the Acetyl Protecting Group from p-Bromoacetanilide
5.16 Synthesis of Aspirin
5.17 Synthesis of Ferrocene via the Phase Transfer Catalysis
5.18 Synthesis of 2-Nitro-l,3-benzenediol
5.19 Preparation of the Urea-Formaldehyde Resin
5.20 Preparation of Cyclohexene
5.21 Synthesis of 2-Chloro-2-methylpropane
5.22 Synthesis of Dibutyl Ether
5.23 Synthesis of Butyl Phenyl Ether
5.24 Synthesis of Hexane-1,6-dionic Acid
5.25 Preparation of Furfuryl Alcohol and 2-Furoic Acid by the Cannizzaro Reaction
5.26 A Solvent Free Cannizzaro Reaction
5.27 Reduction of 3-Nitroacetophenone Using Sodium Borohydride
5.28 Reduction of 3-Nitroacetophenone Using Sn/HCl
5.29 Synthesis of 4-Vinylbenzoic Acid via the Wittig Reaction
5.30 Preparation of 1,5-Diphenylpenta-l,4-dien-3-one Using the Aldol Condensation
5.31 Preparation of 2-Methylbutan-2-ol via the Grignard Reagent
5.32 Preparation of Dimedone via the Robinson Annulation
5.33 Preparation of Phenacetin from p-Aminophenol via a Two-Step Synthesis
5.34 Extraction of Alkaloids from Chinese Herbs--Coptis Chinensis
5.35 Extraction of Caffeine from Teas
6 Appendices
6.1 List of Equipment and Glassware for Each Experiment
6.2 List of Chemicals for Each Experiment
6.3 Appendix Tables
6.4 Abbreviations