Historical Chemistry Research Lab Stuff

THIS PAGE HOLDS HISTORICAL RECOMMENDATIONS 15 YEARS OLD ABOUT PROFESSIONAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCH LABORATORY PRACTICES. IT IS NOT UP TO DATE AND NOTHING IN IT IS SUITABLE FOR USE AS IT STANDS, EVEN IN MODERN RESEARCH LABORATORIES. NO RESPONSIBILITY IS ACCEPTED FOR ANY ACTIONS ARISING FROM USE OF THIS HISTORICAL DATA AS IT STANDS.

ALL PROFESSIONAL OR ACADEMIC ACTIONS  RELATING TO PRACTICES IT DESCRIBES  WOULD NEED FULL UPDATING TO MODERN STANDARDS BY FULL RISK ASSESSMENT AND ALL NECESSARY BACKGROUND RESEARCH. 

NO ACTIONS RELATED TO IT WOULD BE SUITABLE, EVEN AFTER SAFETY UPDATING, FOR NON-PROFESSIONAL OR NON-ACADEMIC SITUATIONS. 

For any professional or academic chemists...

Here as PDFs are:

1. A collection of Workup and Other Tips

2. A flowchart with a Practical Key for Crystallisation / Crystallization

3. A flowchart with a Practical Key for Recrystallisation / Recrystallization

4. A flowchart with a Key for Purifying Insolubles 

All are historical documents from old research, requiring modern assessment before any use.

5. NOTE: The flowchart with a Key for Difficult Aqueous Workup of Hydrophilic Products is NOT shown below because it has been published: see Reaction Workup Planning: A Structured Flowchart Approach, Exemplified in Difficult Aqueous Workup of Hydrophilic Products. George B. Hill*, Joseph B. Sweeney*. J. Chem. Educ., 2015, 92, 488-496. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ed500580p