Organic Structures and Properties Laboratory

Catalog description

Laboratory will be used to reinforce the lecture material pertaining to how structure relates to the properties and reactivities of organic compounds. In the first semester students learn the skills and techniques that form the basis for many procedures used in academic, pharmaceutical, and industrial labs. These include thin layer and column chromatography extractions, crystallizations, and fractional distillations. They also learn to perform basic one-step organic syntheses and develop the ability to interpret IR spectra in characterizing their products. CHEM 228 must be taken prior to or concurrent with CHEM 228L.