Overview
Description
Laboratory techniques and principles of the synthesis, purification, and characterization of organic compounds. For chemistry and other pre-professional majors.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Corequisite
CHEM 242
Corequisites
CHEM 341
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 242 or Corequisite.
Corequisites
Corequisite(s): CHEM 341.
Units
Laboratory Studio2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- safely handle laboratory glassware, equipment, chemicals, and generated waste in accordance with waste disposal and safety regulations.
- maintain a laboratory notebook according to course guidelines.
- practice basic laboratory techniques used for the preparation, purification, and separation of organic compounds and apply the laboratory techniques to single-step organic transformations.
- use instrumentation such as gas chromatographs, polarimeters, infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers for the identification of organic compounds and interpret data acquired from these instruments.
- use experimental data to calculate reaction metrics such as yield and atom economy.
- correlate organic chemistry theory with experimental outcomes.
- locate current and archival chemical literature and then report literature information and experimental results in the quality and form of a scientific journal article.
- articulate and follow ethical principles in a scientific context, including professional standards of laboratory practice.