Lab report grading rubrics will be identical to last semester. Click here to go directly to the lab schedule.
Your laboratory grade will be 25% of your final grade. Completion of all laboratory work is required, including submitting acceptable reports for each experiment.
Attendance at all laboratory periods is required until your lab work is complete. However, the last three syntheses of the term are operationally simple, and you may, if you can, perform more than one per week. Expectations for the laboratory portion of the course are given in the laboratory manual. All work in the lab must be completed before April 18! Failure to complete all laboratory work, including reports, will lower your final grade in addition to the zero for the incomplete work.
Reasonable excuses will be accepted for absences. Students who must miss a laboratory period must make up the work as best they can. With the exception of melting/boiling point determinations and IR/NMR spectral readings, all work must be performed in the scheduled laboratory time slots.
Other experiments may be substituted; sufficient notice will be given.
| Week of... | Experiment | Report due... |
| January 7 | Virtual Spectroscopy Use the SDBS for this |
February 22 |
| January 14 | Organic qualitative analysis: micro boiling point determination and IR of your unknowns |
Preliminary report January 25; final report February 29 |
| January 21 | Keto/enol equilibrium: measurement of equilibrium by NMR | February 1 |
| January 28 | Esterification of trifluoroacetic acid: measurement of reaction rates by NMR | Feb 8 |
| February 4 | Williamson Ether Synthesis; ID product by 1-D and 2-D NMR | February 22 |
| February 11 | Hydroboration: prove structure of product | February 29 |
| February 18 | Finish spectroscopy of unknowns | February 29 |
| February 25 | Diels-Alder reaction | March 14 |
| March 3 | No lab (spring break) | |
| March 10 | Solvolysis of alkyl halides | March 20 |
| March 17 | Synthesis and ID of unknown ester | April 18 |
| March 24 | Aldol reaction: identify product and propose mechanism | April 11 |
| March 31 | Formaldehyde + Meldrum's Acid: identify product | April 18 |
| April 7 | Oxidation: identify product | April 25 |
| April 14 | Makeup week. All lab work must be finished this week. Dispose of all product samples. | |