Overview
Description
Techniques employed in the preparation, separation and identification of organic compounds.
Requirements
Corequisites
CHEM 220ACHEM 242
Original catalog text
Corequisites
CHEM 220A or CHEM 242.
Units
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Restrictions
Credit allowed in only one of CHEM 220L, CHEM 345, or CHEM 347.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- safely handle laboratory glassware, equipment, chemicals, and generated waste in accordance with waste disposal and safety regulations.
- practice basic laboratory techniques used for the preparation, purification, separation, and identification of organic compounds such as recrystallization, distillation, extraction, chromatography, and melting point determination.
- apply laboratory techniques to single-step organic transformations.
- use knowledge of organic chemistry theory to explain reaction outcomes.
- measure and record experimental data such as mass, melting point, or retention factor, and calculate reaction metrics such as percent yield, percent recovery, and atom economy.
- articulate and follow ethical principles in the laboratory context.