Date

Activity

Sept. 4, 5

Wednesday and Thursday
Check In

Sept. 11, 12

Wednesday and Thursday
Lewis Structures handout will be distributed in lab.
Due: Hand in Lewis Structures worksheet before leaving lab.

Sept. 18, 19

Wednesday and Thursday
Recrystallization of Benzoic Acid is available here.
Remember to save your benzoic acid so that you can determine its melting point in a future lab meeting.

Sept. 25, 26

Wednesday and Thursday
Isolating Natural Products (Caffeine): Liquid-liquid extraction is available here.
Remember to save your crude caffeine so that you can purify it next week.
Due: Hand in the first draft of your Recrystallization of Benzoic Acid "experimental". This handout briefly describes what an experimental is.

Oct. 2, 3

Wednesday and Thursday
Determine the melting point of your benzoic acid and sublime your caffeine

Oct. 9, 10

Wednesday and Thursday
Co-Distillation: The isolation of eugenol from cloves is available here.
Remember to save your clove oil for analysis next week.
Due: Hand in the final draft of your Recrystallization of Benzoic Acid experimental and your report for the Isolating Natural Products (Caffeine): Liquid-liquid extraction activity.

Oct. 16, 17

Wednesday and Thursday
An Introduction to the Gas Chromatograph: Collecting a chromatogram of clove oil is available here

Oct. 23, 24

Wednesday and Thursday
Optical Activity/Polarimetry is available here.
Due: Hand in the report for An Introduction to the Gas Chromatograph: Collecting a chromatogram of clove oil and the Optical Activity/Polarimetry report.

Oct. 30, 31

Wednesday and Thursday
Regioselectivity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation is available here. We will synthesize the bromohydrin this week and perform chemical tests on it next week.
Additional information about the lab is available here. The page contains videos and a flow chart that will help you understand the procedures followed during the experiment. The videos also show how the apparatuses used in the activity are set up.

Nov. 6, 7

Wednesday and Thursday
Finish Regioselectivity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation
AND start Stereospecificity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation, which is available here.
Additional information about the lab is available here. The page contains videos and a flow chart that will help you understand the procedures followed during the experiment. The videos also show how the apparatuses used in the activity are set up.

Nov. 13, 14

Wednesday and Thursday
Finish Stereospecificity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation
Due: Regioselectivity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation report.

Nov. 20, 21

Wednesday and Thursday
Nucleophilic Substitution: Nucleophilicity and solvent effects can be downloaded from here.
Due: Stereospecificity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation report.

Nov. 27, 28

Wednesday no afternoon classes
Thursday no classes

Dec. 4, 5

Wednesday and Thursday
Alkene Formation: Dehydrohalogenation of 1- and 2-bromobutane and dehydration of 1- and 2-butanol is available here.
Here is a web page with additional information about the dehydration and dehydrohalogenation activity. The page contains videos that will help you understand the procedures followed during the experiment and how the apparatuses used in the activity are set up.
Due: Nucleophilic Substitution: Nucleophilicity and solvent effects report.

Dec. 11, 12