Common Laboratory Items
Here is a list of items that I use routinely in a synthetic organic chemistry laboratory. While this is not yet comprehensive, I am making a note of items that I typically need when running reactions.
Drying Agents
- Magnesium sulfate, anhydrous
- Molecular sieves
- Phosphorus pentoxide
- Sodium sulfate, anhydrous
Equipment
- Heating mantles
- Magnetic stirring beads/rods
- Rheostat / Variac
- Rotary evaporator
- Stirring, hot plates
- Tape, parrafin
- Tape, Teflon
- Tubing
- Vacuum pump
Inorganics
- Potassium bicarbonate
- Potassium carbonate
- Potassium fluoride
- Potassium hydroxide
- Sodium bicarbonate
- Sodium carbonate
- Sodium hydroxide
- Sodium thiosulfate
Glassware
- Beakers
- Bottles, storage
- Bottles, solvent wash/squeeze
- Bubbler, mineral oil
- Bump traps for rotary evaporator
- Condensers
- Dean-Stark trap
- Erlenmeyer flasks
- Funnels
- Glass-fritted filter funnels
- Inert gas and vacuum manifold
- Needles, disposable
- Round bottom flasks
- Soxhlet extractor
- Syringes, glass
- Syringes, disposable plastic (polyethylene, rubber free)
- Vials, reaction
- Vials, storage
Safety, Laboratory
- Bleach for biohazard spills
- Dilute aqueous acetic acid for base burns
- Dilute aqueous sodium bicarbonate for acid burns
- Eye wash stations
- Fire extinguishers
- Gas cylinders held in place by chains which are bolted to a solid wall.
- Proper disposal of laboratory waste (aqueous, organics, heavy metals, fluoride, etc.)
- Proper storage of laboratory chemicals (acids / corrosives separate from bases / caustics, peroxides refrigerated, etc.)
- Safety showers
- Sand for metal and other fires
- Vented flammable storage cabinets
- Vermiculite or cat litter for solvent spills
Safety, Personal Protective Equipment
- Blast shield
- Face shield
- Gloves, disposable (nitrile, preferably)
- Gloves, insulated
- Gloves, thick (neoprene)
- Goggles
- Lab Coat
- Respirator or Filter mask
- Safety glasses
Solvents
- Acetone
- Acid, hydrochloric
- Acid, nitric
- Acid, sulfuric
- Benzene
- Chloroform
- Dichloromethane
- Diethyl ether
- N,N-Dimethylacetamide
- N,N-Dimethylformamide
- Dimethyl sulfoxide
- Ethanol
- Ethyl acetate
- Isopropanol
- Methanol
- Hexanes
- Pentane
- Petroleum ether
- Tetrahydrofuran
- Toluene
- Water, deionized
Stock Solutions
- Acetic acid, dilute aqueous
- Hydrochloric acid, 1 M aqueous
- Hydrochloric acid, 6 M aqueous
- Sodium bicarbonate, saturated aqueous
- Sodium chloride, saturated aqueous, a.k.a. “brine”
- Sodium hydroxide, 1 M aqueous
- Sodium hydroxide, 6 M aqueous
- Sodium thiosulfate, saturated aqueous
- Water, deionized