Cohen J.B. Practical Organic Chemistry

2nd ed. - MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1910. - 356 p.The book does not aim at being a complete laboratory guide, but is intended to provide a systematic course of practical instruction, illustrating a great variety of reactions and processes with a very moderate outlay in materials and apparatus. The objection may be raised that the detailed description of processes makes no demand upon a student's resourcefulness or ingenuity. It must be remembered, however, that the manipulative part of organic chemistry is so unfamiliar to the elementary student that he requires minute directions in order to avoid waste of time and material. Until he has acquired considerable practical skill he cannot accomplish the experimental work requisite for research, and repeated failures will be apt to destroy his confidence in himself.
The present edition is much enlarged and contains new parationSj reactions and quantitative methods, all of which have been carefully revised. My object has been not to follow any particular syllabus, but to present a variety of processes from which a selection may be made to suit the special needs of different students.