Collins' Elementary Science Series. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: ADAPTED FOR STUDENTS IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSES OF THE SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT SOUTH KENSINGTON. BY W. MARSHALL WATTS, D.Sc., F.C.S., PHYSICAL SCIENCE MASTER IN THE GIGGLESWICK GRAMMAR SCHOOL. LONDON AND GLASGOW: 1873. 193. g. 69 PREFACE. A REFERENCE to the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department, will show that certain subjects treated of in the following pages, are not required at the examinations of the Department for the Elementary Stage. These extra subjects are contained in the following Sections:-SS 2, 3, 25 to 29, 40 to 42, 50, 69 to 70, 76 to 78, 89 to 134. January, 1873. SYLLABUS OF THE SCIENCE & ART DEPARTMENT. SUBJECT XI.-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. ELEMENTARY COURSE. Pupils presenting themselves for examination will be expected to possess a knowledge of the following subjects: Definition of organic bodies; their ultimate analysis (§ 1). Calculation of empirical formulæ. Compound organic radicals. Notation of organic compounds (§ 4). Graphic and symbolic formula (§ 4). ORGANIC RADICALS.-Positive radicals. Preparation and properties of the monad radicals of the methyl series (§§ 5-12). Monad radicals of the vinyl and phenyl series (§§ 13—15). Dyad positive radicals of the ethylene series (§§ 16-21). Preparation and properties of ethylene (§ 16). Negative radicals. Cyanogen (§ 22). Oxatyl (§ 23). Oxalic acid, its preparation and properties (§ 24). HYDRIDES OF THE ORGANIC RADICALS (§§ 30-36).-Methylic hydride or marsh gas (§ 30). Paraffin (§§ 37, 38). Benzol (§ 39). Cyanic hydride or hydrocyanic acid (§§ 43—45). hydride or formic acid (§ 46). THE ALCOHOLS.-Definition of an alcohol (§ 47). alcohol (§ 48). Ethylic or common alcohol (§ 49). alcohol or carbolic acid (§ 51). Oxatylic Methylic Phenylic THE ETHERS.-Definition (§ 52). Preparation and properties of ethylic ether (§ 53). THE HALOID ETHERS (§§ 54-61).—Their constitution. Preparation and properties of ethylic chloride (§ 59) and iodide (§ 60). |