Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Chemistry 211
Schedule for Semester I, Fall 2012
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Week
Dates
Experiment #
Experiment Title
Experiment Type
General Lab Information (docx)
(pdf)
Forces and Factors (docx)
(pdf)
Laboratory Equipment
1
9/04 - 9/06
No lab meeting this week.
2
9/10 - 9/13
Experiment 1a (docx)
Experiment 1a (pdf)
General Lab Information
Gas Chromatography/Steam Distillation
Check-in
YouTube
Orientation/Safety Lecture-thermal burn and cut safety
General safety:
Chemical exposure:
Fire safety:
Thermal Cuts and Burns:
How to Build a Proper Still: part I
How to Build a Proper Still: part II
How to Run a Basic GC
Images
Apparatus 1
Apparatus 2
I
1, 2
3
9/17 - 9/20
Experiment-1b
Experiment 1a (pdf)
Fractional Distillation/Simple Distillation
YouTube
How to Build a Proper Still: part I
How to Build a Proper Still: part II
How to Run a Basic GC
I
1, 2
5
9/24 t- 9/27
Experiment 3 (docx)
Experiment 3 (pdf)
Extraction of Caffeine from Tea
YouTube
Rotary Evaporation: part I
Rotary Evaporation: part II
Sublimation
Some Instruction on how to do the arrow formalism
soxhlet extraction
I
2
6
10/01 - 10/04
Experiment 5 (DOC)
(PDF)
Separation and Identification of Unknown Mixture
YouTube
YouTube on separation of acids and bases
I, G
8
10/08 - 10/11
Experiment 4 (DOC)
(PDF)
Experiment 18 (PDF)
Introduction to Spectroscopy
D
2
O Addition of Fumarate to Produce Malate Set-up Rxn
YouTube
IR-1 basics
important for fall
IR-2
IR-3
IR-4
IR-5
important for fall
How to prepare sample for NMR
How to Inject a Sample into the NMR at Bryn Mawr College
How to Run NMR Sample at Bryn Mawr College part I
How to Run NMR Sample at Bryn Mawr College part II
How to solve a basic NMR Problem
A practice NMR problem
A practice NMR problem
Solution to basic nmr problem no. 3
Solution to NMR Problem no. 4
Spectroscpy as Imagery
I, G
7
10/15 - 10/18
Fall Break, rest, eat, have fun
9
10/22 - 10/25
Experiment 4 (DOC)
(PDF)
Experiment 18 (PDF)
Experiment 10a (DOCX)
Experiment 10a (PDF)
Introduction to Spectroscopy (Continued)
D
2
O Addition of Fumarate to Malate Run NMR
Set up Diels Alder Reaction
YouTube
Running NMR part 3
Run NMR
I,G
10
10/29 - 11/01
Experiment 18 (PDF)
Experiment 10a (DOCX)
Experiment 10a (PDF)
Conference on D
2
O Addition of Fumarate to Moderate Set-up Rxn
Recrystallize Diels-Alder Product
F
11
11/13 -11/15
(miss Monday)
Experiment 7
Nucleophilic Substitution:
Preparation of 1-Bromobutane
Quiz 1 (attachment) except Monday Section
P,F
12
11/19 - 11/22
Thanksgiving Week, Make-up Days
13
11/26, 11/27,11/28, 11/29, 11/30
Oxidation of Isoborneol to Camphor
(PDF)
Oxidation of Isoborneol to Camphor
2
15
12/03 - 12/06
Experiment 6a
Experiment 6b
Free Radical Substitution:
Chlorination of chlorobutane
YouTube
Running a Simple GC at Bryn Mawr College
How to Make a Micro-drying Apparatus
Conference during Lab
Quiz 2
I
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.