| Week | Experiment Number and Name | Description |
|---|
| 1 | | • Safety training and model kit check out
• Spectroscopy review (2 handouts)
• Acid / Base review (1 handout)
• Resonance review (1 handout)
• Record keeping and literature searches |
| 2 | 5b Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution | • Perform nitration
• Practice working with concentrated acids
• Determine purity of the product |
| 3 | Capstone Project Introduction | • Searching the chemical literature
• Topic selection
• Chemical abstracts research |
| 4 | 6b Aldehydes and ketones | • Identify unknowns
• Run more specific aldehyde and ketone reactions |
| 5 | Wk 5/6 Capstone Project | • Reaction proposals
• Inventory check
• Collecting and ordering supplies |
| 6 | 11b Synthesis of Methyl Orange | • Perform azo coupling
• Observe interaction of dye with different fabrics
• Learn about bleaching |
| 7 | 9a Gas Chromatography (and MS) of FAMES | • Transesterification of unknown fat
• Apply GC-MS analysis technique used in food industry
• ID the fat based on GC-MS data |
| 8 | Wk 7/8 Capstone Project | • Run reactions
• Characterize products |
| 9 | 7b Grignard reaction | • Final characterization if needed
• Make and handle water sensitive reaction mixtures
• Use acid/base extraction in work up
• Recrystallization |
| 10 | Wk 9/10 Capstone Project | • Class presentation (15 min each) |
| 11 | 9b Aldol Condensation | • Perform free radical polymerization
• Perform condensation polymerization |
| 12 | 12b Polymerization | • Choose recrystallization solvents
• ID product by IR and NMR |
| 13 | 10b Multistep Synthesis | • Synthesis of tetraphenylcyclopentadienone
• Perform 3 synthesis steps in sequence |
| 14 | Lab Practical | • Covers all experiments |
| 15 | Final Exam Part 2 ACS National Exam | • Covers all chapters |