Describes the use of phase transfer conditions to prepare a sulfur and phosphorus ylide. Background information and procedures are provided for the experiment (which can be completed in one three-hour laboratory period). (JN)

Background information, laboratory procedures, and results are provided for the preparation of vanillin from isoeugenol acetate. Reaction scheme used to prepare the vanillin and a table indicating the different oxidation experiments carried out on isoeugenol or isoeugenol acetate are also provided. (JN)

Describes two procedures for the conversion of eugenol to vanillin

Describes six laboratory procedures for preparing polymers which have been used in a course for undergraduate industrial arts students, who have a concentration in plastics technology but have not taken more than one year of college chemistry. (BT)