Organic Chemistry Laboratory          Fall Term 2009

 

Tentative Schedule of Activities:  subject to modification--

 

9/25

Week 1

Lab reports; introduction: read Ch. 1 and 2

10/2

Week 2

Melting points

10/9

Week 3

No lab this week

10/16

Week 4

Crystallization and recrystallization:  Ch. 3 expt. 1, 2, 3, 7

10/23

Week 5

Ch. 3 continued

10/30

Week 6

Distillation:  Purification of acetone (GEMS)    

11/6

Week 7

Sublimation:  Ch. 7 all expts.

11/13

Week 8

Extraction and separation of a mixture:  Ch. 8  expt. 1

11/20

Week 9

Experiment repeat/makeup ( 7th inning stretch!!)

11/27

Week 10

Thanksgiving week, no lab

12/4

Week 11

Polarimetry:  handout

 

Safety:  120 questions that could save your life from St. Olaf

 

Tools to help you with Lab Reports

 

Movies of Laboratory Procedures  thanks to University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Microsoft Excel tutorial link

 

Acetone lab:  an ir spectrum of the starting material (impure acetone) is here.