Laboratory course in organic chemistry (Rosenblatt, David H.; Davis, George T.)

Organic Chemistry I Laboratory

The problem you need to solve is to determine the identity of the individual components from your mixture. You will use several different techniques today and compare your experimental results to those of known standards. From this data you should be able to identify all of the components of your original mixture. Keep careful records of your observations and your interpretation of spectra so t...

Organic Chemistry I Laboratory

For many years the dehydration of 2-methylcyclohexanol to a mixture of alkenes has been carried out in college organic chemistry labs to demonstrate the application of Zaitzev’s rule and the occurrence of the E1 reaction mechanism in alcohol dehydration reactions. In 1994 David Todd, then a chemistry professor at Pomona College, was distilling the product alkenes out of the reaction mixture whe...

Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Biodiesel in an Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Course

Engineering students in a one-semester organic chemistry laboratory course prepared biodiesel by using either microwave or conventional heating in a discovery-based experiment. The laboratory design was to show improvement in student awareness about the use of microwave heating in organic synthesis in general, and specifically in the preparation of biodiesel. The students were polled before and...

Laboratory studies of the cosmic origins of organic chemistry

Flow Electrolysis Cells for the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory.

Electrosynthesis has much to offer to the synthetic organic chemist. But in order to be widely accepted as a routine procedure in an organic synthesis laboratory, electrosynthesis needs to be presented in a much more user-friendly way. The literature is largely based on electrolysis in a glass beaker or H-cells that often give poor performance for synthesis with a very slow rate of conversion a...