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 5 | Virtual Spectroscopy Use the SDBS for this |
February 20 |
| January 12 | Organic qualitative analysis: IR of your unknowns |
Preliminary report January 23; final report February 27 |
| January 19 | Keto/enol equilibrium: measurement of equilibrium by NMR | January 30 |
| January 26 | Esterification of trifluoroacetic acid: measurement of reaction rates by NMR | Feb 6 |
| February 2 | Williamson Ether Synthesis; ID product by 1-D and 2-D NMR | February 20 |
| February 9 | Hydroboration: prove structure of product | February 27 |
| February 16 | Finish spectroscopy of unknowns | February 27 |
| February 23 | Solvolysis of alkyl halides | March 13 |
| March 2 | No lab (spring break) | |
| March 9 | Synthesis and ID of unknown ester | April 10 |
| March 16 | Aromatic substitution TBA | April 3 |
| March 23 | Oxidation: identify product | April 10 |
| March 30 | Aldol reaction: identify product and propose mechanism | April 17 |
| April 7 | Formaldehyde + Meldrum's Acid: identify product | April 24 |
| April 14 | Makeup week. All lab work must be finished this week. Dispose of all product samples. | |