Organic Lab (C/F 3543)
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY C/F3543

Course Schedule Fall 1999 (M/T/W/Th/F, Evening)
Required Book: Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual, 1999 Edition.

Date

Reading Material

Activities/Experiments

9/13-9/17

General Information

Safety in the Laboratory

Experiment 1: Recrystallization and Mixed Melting Point Technique. Instrumentation Guide: Thomas Hoover Melting Point Apparatus.

Check-in. Course Introduction. Safety Lecture. Recrystallization and Melting Point Lab

9/20-9/24

Experiment 2: TLC, Column, and Gas Chromatography Lab. Instrumentation Guide: Perkin Elmer 8400 Gas Chromatography Section.

Chromatography lab

9/27-10/1

Experiment 3A: Isolation of coloured pigments from Spinach.

Instrumentation Guide: Rotary Evaporator section.

Extraction lab

10/4-10/8

Experiment 4: Isolation of Terpene

Instrumentation Guide: Perkin Elmer 1600 FT-IR section, and 3M Cards.

Steam distillation

10/11-10/15

Experiment 5: The Williamson Ether Synthesis.

Instrumentation Guide: IR section and 3M Card.

Williamson Ether Synthesis

10/18-10/22

Experiment 6: Dehydration of a Tertiary Alcohol. Instrumentation Guide: Review the IR Section and NaCl plates, and the GC section.

Dehydration of a Tertiary Alcohol via Simple Distillation

10/25-10/29

Experiment 7: The Grignard Reaction

Instrumentation Guide: KBr Quick Press Section, Review IR, and Rotovap Sections.

Grignard Reaction

11/1-11/5

NO LABS: Election day Week

11/3 MAKE UP Lab Session

11/8-11/12

Experiment 8: Friedel-Crafts Reaction.

Instrumentation Guide: KBr Quick Press Section, Review IR, and Rotovap Sections.

Friedel Crafts

11/15-11/19

Experiment 9A: Diels-Alder Reaction of µ -Phellandrene and Maleic Anhydride.

Instrumentation Guide: Review IR Section, KBr Pellet

Diels-Alder Reaction

11/22-11/26

NO LABS: Thanksgiving Week

  

11/29-12/3

Experiment 10: Aldol Condensation Reaction.

Instrumentation Guide: Review IR Section, KBr Pellet.

Aldol Condensation

Checkout

12/6

  

MAKE UP Lab Session

Notes:

1. The class meets promptly at 1:10 P.M.

  1. You are required to submit a flowchart/outline of each experiment to be performed on the scheduled day. Unless you do so, you will not be permitted to perform the experiment.

  2. There are scheduled labs every afternoon. If for legitimate reasons you miss your assigned lab period, you must arrange with the preceptor to make up the lab in another section during the same week being understood that you must provide a necessary justification. Please note that besides this two additional make up lab sessions are scheduled.

  3. Failure to make up a missed experiment means a grade of zero for that particular experiment.

  4. The first three technique labs have to be completed during the assigned week.