Date

Activity

Sept. 6, 7

Wednesday and Thursday
Check In

Sept. 13, 14

Wednesday and Thursday
Lewis Structures handout will be distributed in lab.

Sept. 20, 21

Wednesday and Thursday
Recrystallization of Benzoic Acid is available here.

Sept. 27, 28

Wednesday and Thursday
Isolating Natural Products (Caffeine): Liquid-liquid extraction is available here
Hand in first draft of your benzoic acid "experimental". This handout briefly describes what an experimental is.

Oct. 4, 5

Wednesday and Thursday
Benzoic Acid Melting Point Determination and Sublimation of Caffeine

Oct. 11, 12

Wednesday and Thursday
Visualizing electron density, and Modeling Rotamers handout is available here
Hand in your final draft of benzoic acid experimental and your report for the sublimation of caffeine.

Oct. 18, 19

Wednesday and Thursday
Steam Distillation: The isolation of eugenol from cloves is available here
Remember to save your clove oil for analysis next week.

Oct. 25, 26

Wednesday and Thursday
Gas chromatographic analysis of clove oil.
AND Optical Activity/Polarimetry is available here.
Hand in Optical Activity report before leaving lab.

Nov. 1, 2

Wednesday and Thursday
Start Regioselectivity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation is available here.
Additional information about the lab is available here. The page contains videos and a flow chart that will help you understand the procedures followed during the experiment. The videos also show how the apparatuses used in the activity are set up.
Hand in Eugenol Report.

Nov. 8, 9

Wednesday and Thursday
Finish Regioselectivity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation
AND start Stereospecificity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation is available here
Additional information about the lab is available here. The page contains videos and a flow chart that will help you understand the procedures followed during the experiment. The videos also show how the apparatuses used in the activity are set up.

Nov. 15, 16

Wednesday and Thursday
Finish Stereospecificity: Electrophilic addition and bromohydrin formation
AND Nucleophilic Substitution: The reactivity of halogenated hydrocarbons, is available here
Here is a web page with additional information about the Nucleophilic Substitution and Halogenated Hydrocarbons activity. This page contains videos of the tests that you can compare to your results.

Nov. 22, 23

Wednesday no afternoon classes
Thursday no classes

Nov. 29, 30

Wednesday and Thursday
Nucleophilic Substitution: Nucleophilicity and solvent effects can be downloaded from here.

Dec. 6, 7

Wednesday and Thursday
Alkene Formation: Dehydrohalogenation of 1- and 2-bromobutane is available here,
AND More Alkene Formation: Dehydration of 1- and 2-butanol is available here
Here is a web page with additional information about the dehydration and dehydrohalogenation activity. The page contains videos that will help you understand the procedures followed during the experiment and how the apparatuses used in the activity are set up.

Dec. 13, 14