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Chem 2315 and Chem 2325

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Organic Chemistry Laboratory I & II

Dixie State College of Utah

Instructor: Sarah Morgan Black

Phone: (435) 652-7759

Office: SCI 121, 1:00-1:30 Mon, Wed




Chem 2315 Syllabus

Chem 2315 Schedule

Chem 2325 Syllabus

Chem 2325 Schedule

Pre-Lab Questions
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password = chem2325


Laboratory Manual

Safety in the organic chemistry laboratory

Equipment list for check-in and check-out

Equipment pictures

Performing Calculations

Keeping a notebook

Sample lab notebook for a reaction

Running a reaction

Organic Laboratory techniques

Measuring chemicals

Refluxing a Reaction

Measuring a Boiling Point

Extracting and Washing

Drying an Organic Solution

Evaporating an Organic Solution

Water Sensitive Reactions

Filtering a Solid from a Solution

Purifying a Liquid by Distillation

Purifying a Solid by Recrystallization

Taking a Melting Point

Analyzing a Mixture by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)

Separating Compounds by Column Chromatography

Characterizing Compounds by Infrared Spectroscopy (IR)

Analyzing NMR Spectra

Experiments with Organic Chemistry Techniques

Calculations Lab

Physical Properties of Organic Compounds (Ch 2)

Identifying Unknowns by IR spectroscopy (Ch 3)

Analysis of Pain-relieving Medications by TLC

Separation of Beta Carotene and Chlorophyll from Spinach Leaves

Isolation of Cinnamaldehyde from Cinnamon

Assigning H's on NMR spectra

Experiments with Organic Chemistry Reactions

Nucleophilic Substitution

Addition of HBr to cyclohexene

Hydroboration-Oxidation of 1-octene

Williamson Ether Synthesis

Addition of a Grignard to a Ketone

Diels-Alder Reaction

Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Ferrocene

Wittig Reaction

Aldol Condensation

Esterification Reaction

Unknowns

Unknown A

Unknown B

Unknown C

Sample lab notebook for an unknown

Chemical Tests for Unknowns

Virtual Chemlab

Introduction to the Virtual Chemlab Program

General Instructions for Running the Virtual Chemlab Program

Virtual Chemlab – Introduction to Running Reactions (Ch 7)

Virtual Chemlab – Hydroboration-oxidation (Ch 10)

Virtual Chemlab – Addition of Br2 to an Alkene

Virtual Chemlab – Grignard Addition

Virtual Chemlab – Friedel-Crafts

Elementary School Demonstrations

Review Questions for Chem 2315 (Please print these questions out and bring them to lab – you will have time to work on them there.)

Review Questions for Chem 2325 (Please print these questions out and bring them to lab – you will have time to work on them there.)

Bibliography