CHEM 233 Experimental Organic Chemistry II
Course prerequisites: Successful completion of, or concurrent enrollment in Organic Chemistry II
Required course materials:
1. Bound lab notebook with duplicate pages
(from previous course, if available).
2. Safety glasses
3. Copy of Experimental Organic II lab manual
Course requirements/grading: 1. Succesful completion of
all labs
and lab write-ups
50 points
2. Three 50 point quizzes
150
3. technique evaluation
50
LABORATORY SCHEDULE
EXPERIMENT TITLE
PAGE WEEK
Introduction, lab safety, waste disposal,
1
1
Lab notebook
2
1
Intro to organic synthesis
4
1
1a: synthesis of methyl benzoate
7
2
1b: nitration of methyl benzoate
8
3
Directions for GC-MS analysis from 1b
10
3
1c: synthesis of m-nitrobenzoic acid
11
4
HPLC and FTIR analysis of 1c product
13
5
(quiz 1 at start of next lab)
2: Spectroscopic identification of an unknown (IR, NMR, MS)
14 6,7,&8
NMR, MS, FTIR sample prep
15
FTIR and FTNMR directions (quiz 2 at start of next lab)
18
3: Synthesis of benzil
20
9
4: Synthesis of tetraphenylcyclopentadienone, and CNMR
21 10
5: Develop your own procedure for Vanillin to
22
Vanillyl alcohol
11&12
7: Emulsion polymerization of styrene, GPC analysis
23 13&14
8: Molecular Modelling
25 15
9: Check-out and quiz 3
16