ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 4524 SPRING 2017

Lab handouts

 

date

Lab #

Lab type

Lab handout

Due date

23 Jan

 

 

Lab Syllabus

 

31 Jan

1

Technique

 Polarimetry

31 Jan

 

 

 

Lab quiz 1

 

 

 

 

Lab quiz 1 answers

 

7 Feb

2

Major Synthesis

 Addition of Br2 to trans-cinnamic acid

Lab book 14 Feb

Theory 21 Feb

 

 

 

Lab quiz 2

 

 

 

 

Lab quiz 2 answers

 

7 Feb

2

 

Summary of anti and syn attack stereochemical outcomes for Br2 addition to trans-cinnamic acid

 

7 Feb

 

 

Sample topside anti and syn attack with text

 

7 Feb

 

 

Rubric for lab note book trans-cinnamic acid lab

 

7 Feb

 

 

Rubric for theory trans-cinnamic acid lab

 

14 Feb

 

 

Powerpoint introduction to NMR

 

14 Feb

 

Notes on NMR

 

14 Feb

 

In-Lab exercises

NMR exercises 0,1 and 2

 

14 Feb

 

 

1H Chemical shift tables (PDF)

 

14 Feb

3

Technique

NMR Dry Lab#1

21 Feb

 

 

 

Answers to NMR Dry Lab #1

 

21 Feb

In-Lab exercise

NMR exercise 3

 

21 Feb

4

Technique

NMR Dry Lab#2

28 Feb

 

 

 

Answers  to NMR Dry lab #2

 

21 Feb

 

 

Powerpoint Notes on: details of 1H NMR, IR, C-13

 

28 Feb

5

Minor synthesis

Diels-Alder Preparation of 4-cyclohexen-cis-1,2-dicarboxylic acid

Lab book 7 March

28 Feb

 

 

Rubric for Lab 5: Diels-Alder Synthesis

 

7 Mar

 

6

Technique

Introduction to Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy : Organic Unknown Analysis

 

10 March (Friday before Spring break)

 

 

 

Rubric for Lab 6: GC-MS analysis

 

21 Mar

7

Major Synthesis

Micro-scale Friedel-Crafts Preparation of 1,4-dibutyl benzene

Lab  book 28 Mar

Theory  4 April

21 Mar

 

 

Rubric for Friedel-Crafts Synthesis Lab

 

21 Mar

 

 

Rubric for Friedel-Crafts Synthesis Theory

 

28 Mar

8

Minor synthesis

(Wilcox 375-379)

Notes on Mechanism of esterification

Lab book 5 April

28 Mar

 

 

Rubric for Esterification Lab notebook

 

4 April

9

Minor synthesis

(Wilcox 397-400)

Notes on dibenzalacetone condensation mechanism

Lab book 11 April

4 April

 

 

Rubric for Dibenzalacetone synthesis lab notebook

 

11 April

10

Minor synthesis

(Wilcox 372-373)

Notes on Mechanism of the Cannizzaro condensation

Lab book 18 April

 

 

 

 

 

18 April

 

 

In-lab practicum Written Exam

 

 

 

 

Answers to in-lab practicum exam

 

25 April

 

Oral exam

6  minute mechanism orals: rules and mechanism list