OA4 - Organic Synthesis & Analysis

Steam distillation

practical approach for separating immiscible liquids

Solvent extraction

A process using differing solubilities of a mixture to separate the components

Buchner funnel

a piece of apparatus used to collect residue in vacuum filtration

Separating funnel

A piece of apparatus used in solvent extraction

Recrystallisation

using solubility differences in cold solvent to purify a product

N+1 rule

A rule in high-res ¹H NMR that tells you the number of protons on a adjacent environment

Mobile phase

the part of chromatography that moves over/through the stationary phase

Stationary phase

the part of chromatography that the mobile phase moves over or through

HPLC

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

GC

Gas chromatography

Carrier gas

the mobile phase in gas chromatography (usually helium or argon).

GLC

Gas liquid chromatography

TLC

Thin-layer chromatography