BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Chemistry 211
Schedule for Semester I, Summer 2008
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  Dates Experiment # Experiment Title Experiment Type
  May 27, 28 1a Gas Chromatography/Steam Distillation
Check-in
Orientation/Safety Lecture
I 1, 2  
  may 29, 30 1b Fractional Distillation/Simple Distillation I 1, 2
  June 2, 3 2 Recrystallization PR, C
  June 4, 5 3 Extraction of Caffeine from Tea I 2
  June 11 5 Separation and Identification of Unknown Mixture
I, G
  June 12, 13 4 Introduction to Spectroscopy I, G

G

  June 16, 17 4 Introduction to Spectroscopy
Lab Test No. 1
on labs 1, 2, 3 & 5
I,G
  June 18, 19   Bromination of trans-Cinnamic
Acid / Column Chromatography
F
  June 23, 24 6 Free Radical Substitution:
Chlorination of chlorobutane
PR, C
  ?????? 7 Nucleophilic Substitution:
Preparation of 1-Bromobutane
P,F
  ??????? 9 Practical, Lab 9 Oxidation of Cyclohexanol
(only turn in IR, GC, mass chromic and acid results)
2
  ???????   Last week of class
Lab Test No. 2
on labs 4, 6, 7 & 8
 

PR Prelab only
C Conference on results and postlab with instructor
P Preparative experiment/write-up
I Investigative experiment/write-up
F Form write-up
G Group experiment/write-up.  Only one report per group.
1 There will be one report written for two parts of this experiment.
2 Limited write up. See specific instructions in lab book.