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Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory I


Course Description

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

ADV ORG LAB I


Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in CHEM 2211L or CHEM 2411L


Prerequisite

CHEM 1212L or CHEM 1312L or CHEM 1412L


Corequisite

CHEM 2311H


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

A. The ability to work effectively and safely in a laboratory environment. B. The ability to work collaboratively in teams as well as independently. C. The ability to critically compare a reaction mechanism to the actual procedure used to carry out the same reaction in the lab. D. Understand how to collect, analyze, and assimilate experimental laboratory data using traditional wet chemical techniques in organic chemistry such as recrystallization, distillation and chromatography. E. Understand how to collect, analyze, and assimilate experimental laboratory data using modern instrumentation such as gas chromatography and infrared spectrometry. F. Develop formal (abstract) thinking skills as well as concrete thinking skills from the analysis of basic laboratory data. G. Use spreadsheet software to graph and analyze electronically accumulated data. I. Use molecular modeling software to evaluate molecular shape and properties. J. Use e-mail and web resources to evaluate collected data. K. The ability to communicate effectively by writing a formal lab report for each.


Topical Outline

EXPERIMENTS: 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


General Education Core

CORE II: Physical Sciences

Syllabus