Safety first, last, and always -- Keeping a notebook -- Interpreting a handbook -- Jointware -- Microscale jointware -- Other interesting equipment -- Pipet tips -- Syringes, needles, and septa -- Clean and dry -- Drying agents -- On products -- The melting-point experiment -- Recrystallization -- Recrystallization : microscale -- Extraction and washing -- Extraction and washing : microscale -- Sources of heat -- Clamps and clamping -- Distillation -- Microscale distillation -- The rotary evaporator -- Reflux and addition -- Reflux : microscale -- Sublimation -- Microscale boiling point -- Chromatography : some generalities -- Thin-layer chromatography : TLC -- Wet-column chromatography -- Refractometry -- Gas chromatography -- HP liquid chromatography -- Infrared spectroscopy (and a bit of UV-VIS, too) -- Nuclear magnetic resonance -- Theory of distillation -- Theory of extraction