Students will focus their efforts on safety, scientific reporting, chemical information literacy, spectroscopic analysis, non-spectroscopic analysis, and standard bench techniques for separation, purification, and synthesis of organic compounds, drawing connections between laboratory procedures and reaction mechanisms. Evaluative tools include pre-lab and post-lab assignments, lab notetaking, reports, and quizzes.
Athena Title
Mod Org Chem Lab II
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CHEM 2312L, CHEM 2412L
Prerequisite
(CHEM 2211 or CHEM 2311H or CHEM 2411) and (CHEM 2211L or CHEM 2311L or CHEM 2411L)
Corequisite
CHEM 2212
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of the class, the student should be able to practice safety including personal safety and deportment, safe deployment, and the use of laboratory glassware and apparatus, equipment, chemicals, and generated waste using guidelines and basic knowledge about the hazards associated with operations in an organic chemistry laboratory.
By the end of the class, the student should be able to maintain a complete and organized record of laboratory experimental data and observations in accordance with the format of the scientific notebook.
By the end of the class, the student should be able to apply the theory and practice of laboratory techniques used in the preparation, purification, separation, and identification of organic compounds including the proper use of specialized glassware.
By the end of the class, the student should be able to use a combination of classical and modern spectroscopic tools from instruments such as NMR, FT-IR, GC, Mel-Temp, etc. to identify an unknown organic compound.
By the end of the class, the student should be able to expand, reinforce, and apply the concepts and skills and laboratory techniques acquired in the first semester of organic chemistry to the synthesis and characterization of organic compounds containing additional functional groups including arenes, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and the derivatives of carboxylic acids.
By the end of the class, the student should be able to elucidate structures using spectroscopic data.
Topical Outline
1. Conversion of Carvone to Carvacrol
2. Diels Alder Reaction
3. Friedel Crafts Alkylation
4. Green Oxidation of an Unknown Alcohol
5. Acid/Base Catalyzed Epoxide Ring Opening
6. Reduction of an Unknown Aldehyde or Ketone
7. Wittig Reaction
8. Fischer Esterification
9. Amide Synthesis
10. Aldol Condensation
General Education Core
CORE II: Physical Sciences
Institutional Competencies
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
