Standard operating procedures
Read and follow the standard operating procedures before and during your work. Current accepted standard operating procedures are listed below.
Chemicals and gases
001-R12 Anhydrous ammonia (PDF, 59KB)
002-R12 Anhydrous hydrogen chloride (PDF, 59KB)
002a-R12 Hydrogen chloride Lecture Bottle (PDF, 13KB)
003-R10 Carbon monoxide (PDF, 46KB)
004-R11 Chlorine gas (PDF, 59KB)
030-R12 Acrylamide safe handling (PDF, 1.7MB)
Equipment
010-R12 Autoclave high pressure (PDF, 100KB)
013-R12 Muffle furnace (PDF, 10KB)
016-R12 Vacuum line use (available soon)
018-R12 Vacuum technique - ampoule sealing (PDF, 14KB)
019-R12 Vacuum technique - freeze pump thaw (PDF, 14KB)
020-R08 Fisher Porter (PDF, 62KB)
021-R18 Flammable solvents (PDF, 155KB)
022-R12 Sealed vessel polymerisations (PDF, 75KB)
023-R09 Use of sodium press (PDF, 41KB)
024-R12 Glass vac line - Pardoe (PDF, 68KB)
025-R12 Slush bath - Pardoe (PDF, 40KB)
036-14 Fyrite CO2 detector (PDF, 28KB)
038-R16 Radleys Reactor (PDF, 161KB)
039 Autoclave high pressure - Conte (PDF, 218KB)
Procedures
005-R18 Collecting alkalies from Stores (PDF, 76KB)
006-R18 Collecting acids from Stores (PDF, 77KB)
007-R18 Liquid nitrogen dispensing (PDF, 85KB)
008-R18 Collecting cryogenics from Stores (PDF, 81KB)
009-R18 Collecting cyanides from Stores (PDF, 76KB)
011-R18 Goods over 5kg (PDF, 82KB)
015-R17 Cylinders to labs (PDF, 27KB)
017-R18 Disposal of waste solvent (PDF, 106KB)
029-R12 Sealed vessel kinetics (PDF, 13KB)
031-13 Drugs precursors (PDF, 85KB)
032-13 Formalin vapourisation (PDF, 77KB)
035-R13 Hydrothermal synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (PDF, 143KB)
Radiochemical work (available soon)
040-16 Piranha solution (PDF, 69KB)
041-17 Distilling dioxane (PDF, 98KB)
042-17 Base and acid baths in E82 (PDF, 29KB)
044-17 Dedydration oxidative dehrdrogentation of styrene (PDF, 137KB)
045-17 Hydogenation setup (PDF, 98KB)