This is a one-semester laboratory designed for non-chemistry majors, mainly for allied medical, dentistry and biology & biotechnology students, It concentrates on some techniques of purification, separation and synthesis of organic compounds..

It is concerned, as well with characterization of organic compounds and identification of some functional groups; melting points, boiling points and distillation, crystallization, extraction and drying agents, steam distillation, chemistry of alcohol's, ethyl bromide and alkyl halide, aldehydes and ketones

Identification of organic compounds using their molecular structures. Study of common reactions such as replacement, addition, removal, ..., etc. Study of alkanes, cycloalkene and alkynes. Reactions of double bond.