CHM 122 Laboratory Schedule, Spring ’07

Dates	Experiment Title	Handouts	Pages to Read in Text/*Online
Jan. 17-22	Safety Video and Computational Chemistry: Conformational Analysis of Ethane and Butane	Spartan Handout MestReC installation and Instructions to map drive to NMR server.	Bring ThinkPad & install Spartan ES prior to lab. McMurry pp.103-108 Computational Tutorial (explains in 5 or 10 minutes how Spartan calculations work)
Jan. 24-29	Check-in and Set up Moonshine	Moonshine Handout (Part I this week) New Week 2 Procedure!!!	*Glassware Zubrick Chs. 1, 2, 4, and 6
Jan. 31-Feb. 5	Moonshine work in pairs	Moonshine Handout (Part II this week) - download updated handout!!	*Distillation Zubrick pp. 157-170, 179-183, and Ch. 36
Feb. 7-12	Pigments in Paprika work in pairs	Paprika Handout Postlab Assignments - new!	*Column Chromatography, *Thin-Layer Chromatography Zubrick Chs. 27-29
Feb. 14-19	Infrared Spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	IR Handout NMR Handout	* Infrared Spectroscopy McMurry pp. 403-414 and Ch. 13
Feb.21-26	Separation and Identification of Components of a Painkiller	Panacetin Handout	*Rotary Evaporation, *Extraction, and *Filtration Zubrick Chs. 15, 22, and 37
Feb. 28-Mar. 5	Midterm Exam (through IR and NMR experiments) and Painkiller (cont’d)	Panacetin ID Handout Postlab Assignments - new!	*Crystallization Zubrick Ch. 13
Mar. 7-9, 19	Painkiller (cont’d) and Set up Synthesis of Benzopinacol	Panacetin ID Handout - same handout as last week Benzopinacol Handout (Part I this week)	*Melting Point Zubrick pp. 86-92
Mar. 21-26	Mass Spectrometry and Receive Unknown and Isolate Benzopinacol	MS Handout - now available Helpful Hints for Solving an Unknown Handout Benzopinacol Handout (Part II this week) - same handout as last week	Molecular Ion Intensity Handout Common Fragment Ions Handout McMurry pp394-402
Mar.28-Apr. 2	Computational Analysis of Carbocation Intermediates in the Pinacolone Rearrangement and Pinacolone Rearrangement	Spartan Pinacolone Handout Pinacolone Rearrangement Handout new, smaller scale 3/23/07	Bring ThinkPad
Apr. 11-16	Alkenes from Alcohols work in pairs	Alkenes Handout MestReC abbreviated instructions MestReC detailed instructions (including helpful hints and common pitfalls)	Install MestReC on ThinkPad and map a drive to the NMR server.
Apr. 18-23	Diels-Alder Reaction	Diels-Alder Handout new/questions added 4/13/07	McMurry pp. 474-479
Apr.25-30	Check out/Lab Final

*See online information at http://www.wfu.edu/~welderco/122L/ prior to lab.

Textbook: Zubrick, The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual, A Student’s Guide to Techniques, 6^th ed.