Spring 2008 Semester
        Laboratory:  Tuesday and Thursday
                                    Section 1:  1:00-3:50pm in 121 Science
                                    Section 2:  6:00-8:50pm in 121 Science

Course Description:  A strong foundation in organic laboratory skills is provided by this laboratory course. Laboratory work includes learning the basic techniques and recrystallization/melting point determination, distillation, liquid/liquid extraction, thin layer, chromatography and column chromatography.  Mastery of these basic techniques lays the foundation for carrying out a number of organic syntheses or natural product isolations.  Students are often provided with hands-on access to instrumentation for the characterization of synthetic products or organic unknowns using standard analysis methods such as IR, NMR, UV/V is spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, polarimetry, HPLC, GC and GC-MS. Chemistry 210 is a prerequisite and CHEM 212 may be a co-requisite for this course, because they provide the theoretical background for the reaction chemistry as well as the spectroscopic characterization of organic molecules.