Welcome to the
Chem 2315 and Chem 2325
Home Page
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
Pre-Lab
Questions
username = first letter of first name + last name
(for example, sblack)
password = chem2325
Laboratory Manual
Safety in the organic chemistry laboratory
Equipment list for check-in and check-out
Equipment pictures
Sample lab notebook for a reaction
Evaporating an Organic Solution
Filtering a Solid from a Solution
Purifying a Liquid by Distillation
Purifying a Solid by Recrystallization
Analyzing a Mixture by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)
Separating Compounds by Column Chromatography
Characterizing Compounds by Infrared Spectroscopy (IR)
Experiments with Organic Chemistry Techniques
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
Experiments with Organic Chemistry Reactions
Addition of HBr to cyclohexene
Hydroboration-Oxidation of 1-octene
Addition of a Grignard to a Ketone
Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Ferrocene
Unknowns
Unknown C
Sample lab notebook for an unknown
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