CHEM 234 - Organic Chemistry Lab II

Unit(s): 1

This course provides additional experience with the common techniques used to synthesize, purify, characterize, and analyze organic compounds. The theory behind each experiment reinforces concepts from CHEM 231/236. Students will develop skills in laboratory manipulations, instrument utilization, and data analysis in a laboratory setting. This class emphasizes best practices for laboratory work, including attention to safety, independent preparation, effective conversion of paragraph instructions to task list to experimental maneuvers, attention to details, argument from data to reasoned conclusions, and the management of chemical waste. Students will demonstrate command of these skills by answering background questions based on reading assignments, purposefully and fully participating in laboratory exercises, carefully maintaining a detailed laboratory notebook, thoroughly analyzing and interpreting experimental data, and writing conclusions. Offered every Spring.

Prerequisite: CHEM 232 with a minimum grade of C and (concurrent CHEM 231 with a minimum grade of C or concurrent CHEM 236 with a minimum grade of C)
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