Course Description
This is the second semester of a two-semester laboratory sequence of organic chemistry for honors students to accompany Advanced Organic Chemistry II (Honors).
Athena Title
ADV ORG LAB II
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CHEM 2212L or CHEM 2412L
Prerequisite
CHEM 2211L or CHEM 2311L or CHEM 2411L
Corequisite
CHEM 2312H
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
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 experiment.
Topical Outline
EXPERIMENTS: 1. Diels-Alder Reaction 2. Nitration of Methyl Benzoate 3. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation 4. Reduction of Camphor 5. Grignard Reaction 6. Synthesis of Aspirin 7. Wittig Reaction 8. Fischer Esterification 9. Aldol Condensation 10. Williamson Ether Synthesis Reaction Products will be analyzed by Proton NMR/Gas Chromatography/Infrared Spectroscopy or a combination of these techniques.
General Education Core
CORE II: Physical SciencesSyllabus