COURSE DESCRIPTION

Shall be taken concurrently with CHM 241 and CHM 242.   Includes qualitative organic analysis. Discussion and recitation 1 hour. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 4 hours per week.

GENERAL COURSE PURPOSE

A sequence of courses designed to introduce the student to the various methods and procedures used in the present day organic laboratory. It covers the general techniques the student must master. Introduces the student to several pieces of instrumentation currently considered standard in organic laboratories. A variety of challenging syntheses are performed by the student as well as structure of the product formed. Analysis of three different compounds by qualitative procedures are performed by the student.

ENTRY-LEVEL COMPETENCIES

Concurrent enrollment in CHM 241, or prior completion of CHM 241, or permission of the instructor.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

As a result of the learning experiences provided in this course, the student should be able to:

1. maintain an accurate and legal laboratory notebook
2. perform simple laboratory operations (melting and boiling points, simple, fractional, and reduced pressure distillations, recrystallization, extractions, use of the various laboratory instruments: gas chromatograph, refractometer, and IR)
3. perform various organic synthesis that characterize the typical organic compounds
4. analyze and characterize the organic products formed in the various synthesis

1. Laboratory Techniques: Melting point and boiling point determinations, various types of distillation, methods of extraction, methods of recrystallization, use of the various types of chromatography, use of the use of the refractometer, use of the IR and the UV
2. Extraction of a natural product from oranges
3. Determination of the ease of substitution of the different types of hydrogen atoms
4. Dehydration of an alcohol and analysis of the alkenes formed
5. Preparation of an alkyl halide via either S_N1, S_N2 or addition reaction
6. Oxidation of cyclohexanol
7. An electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction
8. An aldol condensation reaction
9. A Cannizzaro reaction
10. A Grignard reaction