Chem 6AL

 Organic Chemistry Laboratory

Spring 2009

Reading Assignments

Week 1

Chapter 1: 	Safety (Sections 1.0-1.6)             		10 pages
Chapter 5: 	Measuring Mass and Volume (All sections)	3 pages
Chapter 10:	Melting Points and Ranges (All sections)	10 pages
Chapter 13: 	Refractometry (All sections)			5 pages

Week 2

Chapter 2:  	Laboratory Glassware (All sections)		8 pages
Chapter 11:	Boiling Points and Distillation (11.0-11.6) 	20 pages

Week 3:

Chapter 8: 	Extraction and Drying (All)			25 pages

Chapter 9:  	Recrystallization (All)				15 pages

Week 4:

Chapter 12: 	Sublimation (All)					3 pages

Chapter 18: 	Infrared Spectroscopy (All)			38 pages 

Week 5

Chapter 15: 	Thin Layer Chromatography (All)			10 pages

Chapter 19: 	NMR (19.0-19.7, 19.9-19.10, 19.13) 		28 pages

Week 6:

Chapter 16: 	Gas Chromatography 

(16.0-16.2, 16.4-16.8 only 1st page of 16.8)			10 pages

Chapter 17: 	Liquid Chromatography

(17.0-17.2, 17.7)							7 pages

Week 7

Chapter 20: 	Mass Spectrometry (All)				20 pages

Week 8

Chapter 14:	Optical Activity and Enantiomeric Excess

(14.0-14.2, 14.4-14.6)	

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