CHM 2210L Organic Chemistry II Lab – Fall 2016
Instructor: Dr. Mark Italia
Office: NM 212
Phone: 727-791-2503
Email: MyCourses is the best way to reach me.
General:
· Co-requisite: CHM 2210. If you are not currently enrolled in CHM 2210 on the Clearwater campus of SPC, you will need to provide proof of enrollment elsewhere. If you withdraw or stop attending lecture, you will be withdrawn from this lab class.
Safety and Conduct in the Lab:
· Safety: This is the number one priority in the lab. It is your responsibility to know and follow the rules and procedures at all times. Prior to signing the Safety Rules Form, be sure that you have read through the document thoroughly.
Attendance Policy:
· 100% attendance is expected. You will be automatically withdrawn from lab class if you miss more than one lab period prior to the withdrawal date for this semester – October 20, 2016.
· There are no makeup labs that are scheduled.
· No makeup exams will be given so please do not miss one.
· Tardiness to lab is not acceptable. If you miss the discussion at the beginning of lab, you will miss important explanations.
· You may leave the lab upon completion of the work.
Supplies to be furnished by each student:
Prior to the first lab experiment, each student must obtain and bring to the lab the items listed below.
Organic Chemistry Lab I, custom edition available only in the Bookstore.
Notebook: A bound notebook at least 8” x 8”. This notebook will contain your procedures and any notes you take as you generate data.
Lab coat: available at home supply stores or a uniform supply company.
Safety goggles (Not glasses), approved for use in chemical laboratories, according to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z-87.1-1989.
Calculator: Any calculator will be acceptable. Organic chemistry is not math intensive so any calculator that was used in previous chemistry, math or physics classes would be acceptable.
REQUIRED ASSIGNMENTS:
· Read the material pertaining to each experiment prior to the scheduled lab. There will be information in the lab manual and in MyCourses. It is very important that before beginning each experiment you have a very clear idea of the purpose, procedure, materials used, and safety concerns for that experiment. This should be written down, in your own words, in your notebook.
· Notebook: You must keep a data Notebook. This will be graded for format, content, data, conclusions and post lab questions/answers. See below for how to keep a notebook. The notebook may be used during the Mid-Term and Final Exams.
· Lab Reports: Lab reports will be written as a team after each experiment. The lab report will have all four partners names on it and a single grade will be given for that report. This will teach everyone how to work in teams.
· Presentation: You will work with your lab partners to develop a presentation that you will present to the class. This will be on topics that are randomly selected in organic chemistry. The presentation will be approximately 15 minutes long.
· Mid Term and Final Exams: These will be given on the days indicated. They will be open notebook, so having a complete and well written notebook will help.
Data Notebooks
You are expected to maintain a data notebook. This should contain all of the information you need to have to explain to someone what you did. It should contain all of the items listed below.
Data Notebooks
1. All of the data gathered in the lab will be written in the notebook
2. The notebook should have, as its first page a Table of Contents. At the first lab this page will be blank. The Table should have the name of the lab that is being performed and the page that it starts on.
3. Your notebook may come with page numbers on it. If it does not, then you will have to put the page numbers in the upper right corner.
4. Each lab that you perform will be started on a new page of the notebook. That first page should have the Name of the lab, and the date.
5. The next section should have a purpose statement: Why are we performing this lab? What do we intend to show or prove.
6. The next section should be a procedure section. This is your interpretation of the procedure in the text book. This section needs to be done before the lab is performed. It is a brief description of what you are doing with critical steps outlined.
7. The next section is the results section. This is where all of the data obtained from the experiment is to be placed. How much material was used? How much time elapsed? How much product was obtained?
8. Calculations are in the next section. This section shows all of the calculations performed and how a final answer was arrived at. Calculations may be theoretical yield, actual yield, etc.
9. Conclusions. A conclusion should be enough information for you to explain your findings to someone who does not know what you did. It could be in paragraph form or it could be bullet points. This may include discussions about purity, where loss was seen, reasons for losses in the reaction, why it went wrong, what the melting point was, etc. Always include information on what happened both positive and negative and give a reason as to why. If there are reactions, show them in chemical equation forms.
The Lab report
1. The lab report should be typewritten single spaced 12 point font.
2. The lab should be a brief review of the notebook. It should be no more than 4 to 5 pages.
3. The lab should have a title, a notebook page number references where the data can be found, a purpose, a procedure, a sample calculation section and a results section (just like the data notebook but more formally written).
4. The last step is a conclusions section which describes what you found.
5. The lab report will be written as a group. I know this may take some time, but there are many ways to accomplish this, from face to face meetings, google drive, etc. I will accept one report from the group.
6. The lab report will be graded and handed back. The group will get a single grade. Submission will be through a dropbox using Turn-it-In.
7. The lab report will randomly be checked against your data notebook for accuracy. If it is found to be incorrect against the notebook the grade for that lab will be reduced and all other labs will be checked against the notebook.
TESTING / GRADING POLICY:
The following weights will be given:
Midterm Exam 15 %
Final Exam 15 %
Lab Reports 55 %
Presentation 10 %
Notebook 5 %
Final grades will be assigned as follows:
90% and above A
80%-89.9% B
70%-79.9% C
60%-69.9% D
Below 60% F
CHM 2210L Schedule – Fall 2016 (subject to change)
Date Experiment:
8/18 Course Policy, Safety Rules, Microscale Kit Check-In
8/25 Experiment: Introduction to Microscale Techniques
9/1 Experiment: Crystallization
9/8 Experiment: Solubility
9/15 Experiment: Chromatography
9/22 Experiment: Extraction
9/29 Experiment: Isolation of Caffeine from Tea
10/6 MIDTERM EXAM
10/13 Experiment: Simple and Fractional Distillation
10/20 No Class – All College Day
10/27 Experiment: Measuring the Melting Points of Compounds
11/3 Experiment: Boiling Point Determination
11/10 Experiment: Acetylsalicylic Acid (Synthesis of Aspirin)
11/17 Presentation
11/24 No Class – Thanksgiving Break
11/31 Presentation
11/29 FINAL EXAM