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The document reviews a laboratory manual for general chemistry classes that focuses on green chemistry principles. The manual contains 21 experiments covering analytical, organic, and physical chemistry topics. It is designed for a one-semester laboratory course and provides sufficient material to support a general chemistry course if adopted.

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Lab Manual Gen Chem

The document reviews a laboratory manual for general chemistry classes that focuses on green chemistry principles. The manual contains 21 experiments covering analytical, organic, and physical chemistry topics. It is designed for a one-semester laboratory course and provides sufficient material to support a general chemistry course if adopted.

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Chromatographia

DOI 10.1007/s10337-015-2902-2

BOOK REVIEW

Sally A. Henrie: Green Chemistry. Laboratory Manual


for General Chemistry
Colin F. Poole1 

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Bibliography chemistry classes at this level to meet a general education


Green Chemistry. Laboratory Manual requirement. Only a small number of these students go on
for General Chemistry to major in chemistry or even a science subject. The author
Sally A. Henrie
thus makes a strong attempt to place the discovery of chem-
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL,
ical principles through experimental methods in a broader
USA; 2015, pp xxxv + 348
social setting likely to appeal to an audience unconvinced
ISBN: 978-1-4822-3020-8
GBP 49.99, USD 79.95
of the value or role of chemistry to life after college.
The laboratory manual is set out in a logical sequence
and designed to be used in the laboratory with space in
each chapter provided for recording laboratory measure-
ments and observations and for answering questions related
to the completed experiment. After a brief introduction to
the philosophy of green chemistry and the required discus-
sion of safe laboratory practices, the manual is divided into
Green chemistry is more an attitude to the development of 21 chapters, each representing the material to complete an
chemical processes with a view to minimizing their impact individual experiment. The experiments cover operations in
on health and the environment. The ideas that underpin this analytical, organic and physical chemistry largely. Only one
philosophy have been under consideration in industry for experiment (separation of food dyes by paper chromatogra-
many years, but were slow to permeate academic labora- phy) relates to chromatography. If there is a surprise, given
tories and even slower to permeate the teaching of chem- the focus of the manual, it is the lack of material related
istry at the university level. In separation science the main to biochemical processes, which have become an important
contribution to green chemistry, in my opinion, has been route in industry to green chemical production and waste
miniaturization, not necessarily chip-based platforms, but disposal. Most of the methods involve limited use of instru-
the general downsizing of standard operations, such as mentation, which is typical of laboratory exercises at this
column dimensions in liquid chromatography and liquid- level. A number employ household items as samples, which
phase micro-extraction processes in sample preparation. students generally prefer to unknown solutions as samples.
This laboratory manual for general chemistry (generally I found nothing controversial or extraordinary and the work
defined as Year One chemistry classes in US universities) is fit for its intended purpose.
is a welcome change and direction for enriching the labo- There is little reason to buy a book of this kind unless
ratory experience of students, the majority of whom take you intend to adopt it for teaching purposes. It is not so
much designed for the teacher as the student. It would
provide sufficient material for a one-semester laboratory
* Colin F. Poole
course in general chemistry allowing the instructor to tar-
[email protected]
get certain applications to support a general chemistry syl-
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Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA labus presented as lecture material in a parallel course. The

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C. F. Poole

text only presents the information required to conduct and student laboratory manual. Otherwise, it is a nice book,
interpret the experiments, and does not act as a substitute carefully prepared, and on message. If my comments
for a general chemistry textbook. Since it is not connected immediately above do not resonate as important consider-
with one of the popular general chemistry textbooks, this ations then I would recommend this manual for adoption
might limit uptake. In addition, it is expensive for a one-use without reservation.

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