BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Chemistry 211
Schedule for Semester I, Fall 2009
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Week Dates Experiment # Experiment Title Experiment Type
1 8/31 - 9/04   No lab meeting this week.  
2 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 9/10 1a Gas Chromatography/Steam Distillation
Check-in
Orientation/Safety Lecture
I 1, 2  
3 9/14, 9/15, 9/16, 9/17 1b Fractional Distillation/Simple Distillation I 1, 2
4 9/21, 9/22, 9/23, 9/24 2 Recrystallization PR, C
5 9/28, 9/29, 9/30, 10/1 3 Extraction of Caffeine from Tea I 2
6 10/5, 10/6, 10/7, 10/8 5 Separation and Identification of Unknown Mixture
I, G
7 10/12, 10/13, 10/14, 10/15 Fall Break, rest, eat, have fun
8 10/19, 10/20, 10/21, 10/22 4 Introduction to Spectroscopy I, G

G

9 10/26, 10/27, 10/28, 10/29 4 Introduction to Spectroscopy
Lab Test No. 1
on labs 1, 2, 3 & 5
I,G
10 11/2, 11/3, 11/4, 11/5   Bromination of trans-Cinnamic
Acid / Column Chromatography
F
11 11/9, 11/10, 11/11, 11/12 6 Free Radical Substitution:
Chlorination of chlorobutane
I
12 11/16, 11/17, 11/18, 11/19 7 Nucleophilic Substitution:
Preparation of 1-Bromobutane
P,F
13 11/23, 11/24, 11/25, 11/26   Thanksgiving Week, Make-up Days  
14 11/30, 12/1, 12/2, 12/3 9 Practical, Lab 9 Oxidation of Cyclohexanol
(only turn in IR, GC, mass chromic and acid results)
2
15 12/7 12/8, 12/9, 12/10   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.