Montclair State University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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