We are presently undergoing renovations. Please bear with us. In order to view and print some of the materials below, you will need to download some specialized software. Accordingly, in the early portion of the course, the experiments illustrate the proper performance of such fundamental laboratory techniques as recrystallization, distillation, and several types of chromatography. Proficient mastery of these techniques will help to insure good results in the synthetic experiments which follow.
Notebooks are to be written in black ink .
Minor errors may be dealt with by striking through with two lines. Under no circumstances are pages to be torn out of the notebook. The laboratory period is five hours in length and you are expected to utilize this time to maximum advantage. A pre-lab lecture explaining the experiment, calculations, and any pertinent safety precautions is presented at the start of the lab period. Depending upon the length of the scheduled experiment, the lab instructor may spend a portion of this introductory period going over homework problems from the lecture portion of the course.