Experimental Chemistry I ~ Syllabus & Schedule
CH 362 & CH 362H   ~  Winter Term, 2012
Last updated: 02/24/2012

Week Lecture Topic (Instructor) Lab Work Reading Assignment
(updated for 3rd Ed)
 


1 (Jan 9)


Introduction to course,
Overview of Experiment 1, 
Synthesis of acids. (Firpo)

Begin Project 1 - Strain Energy

(T/W) Prepare/clean glassware for synthesis.  H - put clean glassware in oven to dry; P- check out glassware from issue room

(R/F) Synthesize carboxylic acid
 


Lab manual, Project1.

Review MHS Ch. 1 (Safety) and Ch. 3 (keeping a notebook; Ch 4.4 (cleaning glassware); MHS Ch.7 (synthetic techniques).

2 (Jan 16)

(Mon is MLK day)

Vacuum distillation (Loeser)
Synthesis of esters ( Firpo)

(T/W) Workup acid 
(R/F) Rotovap excess ether, and vacuum distill acid

Lab manual, Project1.

Review ester synthesis in your organic chem text

MHS Ch 11 (extractions) and Ch 13.(distillations)
 

3 (Jan 23)
 

Esterification and workup. (Firpo)

(T/W) Synthesize and workup esters
(R/F)  Rotovap ether; vacuum distill ester; GC fractions time permitting.

Lab manual, Project1

4 (Jan 30)

Characterization of products by FTIR & refractometry. (Pastorek)

Communication Paper and Peer Review Reports. (Loeser)

(T/W) Finish GCing; start FTIR and refractometry characterizations for acids and esters
(R/F) Finish all characterizations and view  Calorimetry web program

Review IR in your organic chem text.

MHS, Ch 19 (GC), Ch 16 (refraction), Ch 20 (IR)

5 (Feb 6)
 

Bond energies, Oxygen Bomb Calorimetry. (Loeser/Pastorek)

(T/W) Start Calorimetry (groups);  Computational Chemistry using HyperChem

(R/F) Continue Calorimetry/HyperChem

(F)Communication Paper on Synthesis & Characterization Due  -Please submit your original plus 3 copies for the peer review evaluation. (due date adjusted to Feb 16/17 2012)

Lab manual, Project1

GNS, Chapter VI, esp. pp. 158-161

GNS, Chapter II, esp. pp. 55-61.  

6 (Feb 13)

Finish Experiment 1:

Error Analysis; (Pastorek)

Computational Chemistry. (Loeser & Firpo)

(T/W/R/F) Finish Calorimetry & HyperChem

(R/F) Peer Reviews for the three Communication Articles that you have been given to review are due back to the JECI Editors updated due dates are Feb 23 and Feb 24  (Firpo/Loeser).

Review GNS, Chapters III and XXII;   MHS, Ch 8 (computational chemistry)

7 (Feb 20)

Calorimetry Report 2 Guidelines (Loeser & Firpo)

NMR: Theory; 1-D Characterization of organics;  Hacac tautomerization/Solvent Correlations. (Loeser)

(R/F) Finish Calorimetry and start Project 2: NMR. Solvent study of keto-enol tautomers by NMR; Synthesis of M(acac)3

(R/F) Cont Project 2.

 

Lab manual, Project 2.

Review NMR in your organic chem text

MHS, Ch 21 & Ch 22 (1D and 2D NMR)

8 (Feb 27)

Synthesis of M(acac)3; FTIR of M(acac)3; Paramagnetism of
M(acac)3 ; GCMS(Pastorek)

 


 

(T/W) Calorimetry Report 2 due- can be one report/group- this due date was moved to week 9 Tuesday/Wednesday March 6 & 7

Cont Project 2:  Solvent study; Synthesis of M(acac)3; mp complex; FTIR; GCMS for unknown in packet

(R/F) NMR Unknown Packet will be handed out in lecture.

GNS, pp. 359-363 and 369-377.

Review electronic configurations (high/low spin) and organometallics in your general chem text.
MHS Ch 14 (melting pts).

9 (Mar 5)

Structure identification by NMR: 1- and 2-D;  Oral Reports and Final Written Reports
(Loeser)

(T/W) Calorimetry Report 2 due- can be one report/group- this due date was moved to week 9 Tuesday/Wednesday March 6 & 7

(T/W/R/F) Finish Experiment 2 data collection; work on data analysis

Lab manual, Project 2.

MHS Ch. 23 (MS).

10 (Mar 12)

Locker checkout, Class Presentations and Course Evaluations this week.
 

(T/W) Lab cleanup, and locker checkout.  Submit online abstract for your presentation

(R/F):  Class presentations start at 1 pm, Gilbert Hall 324, followed by course evaluations

11 (Mar 19)

Finals Week (Wednesday)

NMR Report 3 due Wednesday (no later than noon). Please leave in Firpo's mailbox, Gilbert 153.

 

Reading assignments:

You should read the background material before coming to lecture.  "GNS" denotes Garland, Nibler, Shoemaker, "Experiments in Physical Chemistry," 7th edition.  "MHS" refers to Mohrig, Hammond, and Schatz, "Techniques in Organic Chemistry" (chapters given for 3rd Ed (red). "Lab manual" denotes background material in the Experimental Chemistry I lab manual (lab procedures should always be read before each lab period). 

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