This laboratory textbook for students of organic chemistry is designed to utilize standard-scale (macroscale) glassware and equipment but with smaller amounts of chemicals and reagents. It features a number of traditional organic reactions and syntheses, along with the isolation of natural products and experiments with a biological or health sciences focus. The organization of the text is based on essays and topics of current interest, and the book contains a comprehensive treatment of laboratory techniques including both small-scale and some microscale methods.

Covering important spectroscopic techniques used in the study of organic chemistry, this third edition is suitable to be used as the main text in a spectroscopy course, or as a supplement in a second year organic chemistry course. The text covers high resolution 300-MHz NMR spectra which replaces the older 60-MHz spectra. There is a survey section on 1H-NMR which provides a qualitative treatment of spectra by functional group, as well as a discussion on cross polarization in the 13C-NMR spectra and a "How to Solve Mass Spectrometry Problems" section.