Schedule of Experiments

Welcome to the UMass Department of Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Laboratories - CHEM-269 - Organic Lab for non-Chemistry Majors

Laboratory Director - Dr. Christopher McDaniel (mcdaniel[at]chem.umass.edu)

2018 Summer Session 1

Schedule of Experiments (Click on experiment name for handout and in some cases directed to an information page)

Lab Experiment	Date	Special Notes	What is Due before lab begins, in Addition to Pre-lab?
Day 1: Check-In and Melting Point Experiment	May 21	First lab (melting point) is on check-in day.	Safety and Course Policies OWLs, MP pre-lab OWL
Thin-Layer Chromatography	May 23	No lab next Monday due to Memorial Day	Melting point Post-lab
Recrystallization	May 30	None	TLC Post-Lab
Acid-Base Extraction	June 4	None	None
Distillation	June 6	None	Recrystallization Post-Lab
Cyclohexene and Gas Chromatography	June 11	This is your first formal report. See handout "The Typed, Formal Report" on the general handouts page. GC of Cyclohexene Standard	Acid-Base Extraction Post-Lab
Synthesis of an Ether via an Sn2 Mechanism - The Williamson-Ether Reaction	June 13	None	Distillation Post-Lab
Isolation of Trimyristin from Nutmeg	June 18	None	Cyclohexene Post-Lab FORMAL REPORT
Esterification and Infrared Spectroscopy	June 20	None	Sn2 Reaction Post-Lab FORMAL REPORT
Alcohols, Aldehydes and Ketones (AAK) - a lab practical, of sorts	June 25	AAK (not a formal report, done in your notebook). Do as you did with experiments 1-5.	Isolation of Trimyristin from Nutmeg FORMAL REPORT
Check-Out begins at 2:15, after exam is finished.	June 27 (Lab final exam June 27 at 1:30 in gen chem labs)	AAK post-lab due on Friday, June 29 by 12:00 PM to black drop box.	Esterification and Infared Spectroscopy FORMAL REPORT (due 6/27)