Course Description
Students will perform experiments to illustrate the reactions, principles, and techniques presented in Elementary Organic Chemistry.
Athena Title
ELEM ORG CHEM LAB
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CHEM 2211L, CHEM 2312L, CHEM 2412L or CHEM 2311L or CHEM 2411L or CHEM 2212L
Corequisite
CHEM 2100
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and 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. Understand how to collect, analyze, and assimilate experimental laboratory data using tradition wet chemical techniques in organic chemistry such as recrystallization, distillation and chromatography. D. Developed formal (abstract) thinking skills as well as concrete thinking skills from the analysis of basic labortory data. E. Use spreadsheet software to graph and analyze electronically accumulated data F. Use e-mail and web resources to evaluate collected data. G. The ability to communicate effectively by writing a formal lab report for each experiment in an form appropriate for a scientific journal.
Topical Outline
Experiments: 1. Recrystallization of an organic compound. 2. Distillation of a 3. Extraction of Nutmeg 4. Thin Layer Chromatography of a mixture 5. Hydrogenation of Olive Oil 6. Synthesis of Soap 7. Polymerization: Preparation of Nylon 8. Synthesis of an Ester (micro-scale) 9. Synthesis of Indigo, a useful dye 10.Amino acids and Peptides: The Composition of Aspartame
General Education Core
CORE II: Physical SciencesSyllabus