CHEM 233
Course prerequisites: Successful completion of, or concurrent enrollment in Organic Chemistry II.
Required course materials:
- Bound lab notebook with duplicate pages (from previous course, if available).
- Safety glasses
- Copy of Experimental Organic I lab manual
Course requirements/grading points:
1. Succesful completion of all labs and lab write-ups 50 2. Three 50 point quizzes 150 3. Technique evaluation 50
Lab Schedule:
EXPERIMENT TITLE
PAGE
WEEK
Introduction, lab safety, waste disposal,
1
1
Lab notebook
2
1
Intro to organic synthesis
4
1
1a: synthesis of methyl benzoate
7
2
1b: nitration of methyl benzoate
8
3
Directions for GC-MS analysis from 1b
10
3
1c: synthesis of m-nitrobenzoic acid
11
4
HPLC and FTIR analysis of 1c product (quiz 1 at start of next lab)
13
5
2: Spectroscopic identification of an unknown (IR, NMR, MS)
14
6,7,& 8
NMR, MS, FTIR sample prep
15
FTIR and FTNMR directions (quiz 2 at start of next lab)
18
3: Synthesis of benzil
20
9
4: Synthesis of tetraphenylcyclopentadienone, and CNMR
21
10
5: Develop your own procedure for Vanillin to Vanillyl alcohol
22
11 & 12
7: Emulsion polymerization of styrene, GPC analysis
23
13 & 14
8: Molecular Modelling
25
15
9: Check-out and quiz
16
