CHEMISTRY 337

Organic Chemistry Laboratory

 

General Information

Chemistry 331 (lecture), Chemistry 332 (lecture) and Chemistry 337 (lecture and laboratory) constitute the course sequence for pre-professional students (medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy and other health professions), chemical engineering students and other students, not majoring in chemistry, who require a year of organic chemistry. 

 

Course Structure

Four credit-hour course

A lecture component

A laboratory component

 

Prerequisite(s)

One year of freshman chemistry

CH 121, CH 122, CH 123; or

CH 221, CH 222, CH 223; and

CH 331, CH 332; or

CH 334, CH 335, CH 336

 

Terms Offered

Fall

Spring

Summer

 

Textbook

Microscale Organic Laboratory, four edition, by D.W. Mayo, R.M. Pike, P.K. Trumper

Organic Chemistry, fifth edition, by P.Y. Bruice

 

Topics

Melting point determination

Recrystallization

Extraction (solid-liquid; liquid-liquid)

Chromatography (TLC; GC)

Infrared spectroscopy

Proton NMR spectroscopy

The aldol reaction

The Grignard reaction

Dehydration of alcohols

Dehydrohalogenation of alkyl halides

Ester saponification

Isolation and characterization of green-leaf pigments from spinach

Isolation and characterization of lactose from milk

Isolation and characterization of essential oils from spices

Isolation and characterization of trimyristin from nutmeg

 

Lecture Topics

Chemistry at the alpha-carbon

Radical chemistry

Amines and amides

Amino acids

Proteins

Detailed List of Topics

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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