PART 1 Introduction of General Chemicals 1 UNIT 1 Elements and the Periodic Table 1 UNIT 2 Nomenclature of Inorganic Compounds 6 UNIT 3 Nomenclature of Organic Compounds 12 PART 2 Structure Characterization of Organic Compounds 33 UNIT 1 Ultraviolet-visible Spectroscopy 33 UNIT 2 Infrared Spectroscopy 42 UNIT 3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy 49 UNIT 4 Mass Spectrometry 57 PART 3 Organic Synthetic Processes 64 UNIT 1 General Introduction of Organic Synthesis 64 UNIT 2 Recrystallization 67 UNIT 3 Distillation 72 UNIT 4 Separation 79 UNIT 5 Scale-up Synthesis 85 PART 4 Fine Chemicals90 UNIT 1 General Introduction of Fine Chemicals 90 UNIT 2 Dyes and Pigments 98 UNIT 3 Surfactants 108 UNIT 4 Fragrances and Flavors 117 UNIT 5 Chiral Drugs 126 PART 5 Advanced New Techniques in Fine Chemicals 133 UNIT 1 Recent Progresses in Fluorescent Dyes and Chemosensors 133 UNIT 2 Organic Photochromic Molecules 141 UNIT 3 Dye-sensitized Solar Cells 149 UNIT 4 Molecular Logic-based Computation Systems 161 UNIT 5 Artificial Molecular Machines 168 UNIT 6 Carbon Neutral 175 References 180