Examples of both correct and cookbooked experimental sections
Making biodiesel
You can look up authentic spectra of glycerol (glycerine, C3H10O3) on the Integrated Spectral Database System for Organic Compounds. For comparison with your biodiesel spectrum, you should look for methyl esters such as methyl stearate (C19H38O2), methyl oleate (C19H36O2) or methyl linoleate (C19H34O2). Be sure to look them up by formula, as I showed you in class. The name search doesn't work very well.
