This is the first semester of a two-semester laboratory sequence of organic chemistry for honors students to accompany Advanced Organic Chemistry I (Honors).
Athena Title
Advanced Organic Chem Lab I
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CHEM 2211L, CHEM 2411L
Prerequisite
CHEM 1212L or CHEM 1312L or CHEM 1412L
Corequisite
CHEM 2311H
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will have the ability to work effectively and safely in a laboratory environment.
Students will have the ability to work collaboratively in teams as well as independently.
Students will have the ability to critically compare a reaction mechanism to the actual procedure used to carry out the same reaction in the lab.
Students will understand how to collect, analyze, and assimilate experimental laboratory data using traditional wet chemical techniques in organic chemistry such as recrystallization, distillation, and chromatography.
Students will understand how to collect, analyze, and assimilate experimental laboratory data using modern instrumentation such as gas chromatography and infrared spectrometry.
Students will develop formal (abstract) thinking skills as well as concrete thinking skills from the analysis of basic laboratory data.
Students will be able to use spreadsheet software to graph and analyze electronically accumulated data.
Students will be able to use molecular modeling software to evaluate molecular shape and properties.
Students will be able to use e-mail and web resources to evaluate collected data.
Students will have the ability to communicate effectively by writing a formal lab report for each.
Topical Outline
1. Recrystallization
2. Simple Distillation and Fractional Distillation of a Mixture
3. Extraction of Nutmeg
4. Separation of a Mixture by Extraction
5. TLC Analysis of an Analgesic Tablet
6. Hydrogenation of Olive Oil
7. Molecular Modeling
8. Preparation of Diphenylacetylene
9. Separation of a Reaction Product Mixture by Gas Chromatography
10. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions and Mechanisms
