Organic Chemistry I Laboratory

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Prerequisite: CHEM 1151, CHEM 1152, CHEM 1161 and CHEM 1162 Corequisite: CHEM 2201 A course designed to give the student hands-on laboratory experience with the concepts of CHEM 2201 and the use of experimental apparatus and techniques in the practice of organic chemistry. Emphasis will be on microscale technique due to its safety and economy of time and resources as well as its frequent need in biochemical, natural product, environmental and pharmaceutical fields; however, some macroscale experiments may be performed. Experiments will include molecular modeling of compounds studied in CHEM 2201; basic techniques of recrystallization, melting point and boiling point determination, distillation, extraction, chromatography, and spectroscopy; the S N2 reaction mechanism; selected addition and elimination reactions of alkenes, alcohols, and alkyl halides; 1,2 and 1,4 additions and Diels-Alder cycloaddition of conjugated dienes; infrared, gas chro- matography and UV/visible spectrophotometry.