Course prerequisites: Successful completion of, or concurrent enrollment in Organic Chemistry I.

Required course materials:           1. Bound lab notebook with duplicate pages (from previous course, if available).
                                                     2. Safety glasses
                                                     3. Copy of Experimental Organic I lab manual

 Course requirements/grading points: 1. Succesful completion of all labs
                                                  and lab write-ups                               50
                                                  2. Three 50 point quizzes                 150
                                                  3. technique evaluation                       50
 

                                        Lab Schedule
Week     Activity______________________________________________________________
1.         Check-in/safety discussion/lab orientation
2.         Recrystallization of Benzoic acid and melting points
3.         Distillation of a binary mixture
4.         Capillary GC analysis of the distillation fractions
5.         Extraction of Caffeine from tea
6.         HPLC analysis of caffeine
7.          (Quiz at beginning of  lab)
            Bromination of trans-cinnamic acid
8.         Thin layer chromatography
9.         Flash chromatography with synthesis of benzyl acetate and HNMKR analysis of product
10.         Cont.
11.         Synthesis of cyclohexene with FTIR product analysis
12.         (   Quiz 2)
              Synthesis of benzyl alcohol with FTIR, HNMR, and GC-MS product analysis
13.         cont.
14.         cont.
15.         Introduction to Molecular Modeling
16.         Last quiz  and check-out