Secure flasks sitting in ice baths or on counter tops. The most common technique error associated with this lab is losing your product from an accidental spill. This is a two-week lab. The first week you will prepare and purify your nitration product. Overheads used by the TAs in the prelab lecture.
Esters are very common in nature and an important part of Organic chemistry courses.
We will prepare several common nice-smelling esters and review the mechanism of their formation. This is the last experiment before we begin our projects. I encourage you to begin reading the project section in your laboratory manuals now. Remember Spring Break begins on March 5. You must turn in your lab reports before you leave for break.