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Organic Chemistry Lab, Chem 310, Section 03 (00154)
Lab Hours: Thursdays (6:40pm through 11pm) at WR- 331
TA's office hours (For any course related inquiry): By appointment through email only.
TA's email ID: rb987@scarletmail.rutgers.edu (Use subject: 310 TA)
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Announcements
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09/10: An announcement about Lab Guidelines has been added.
09/10: A document about the student grading scheme for every lab has been added.
Contents (This list will grow as the semester progresses)
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09/06: Introduction, safety instructions, safety quiz, check-in, Benzoin condensation reaction.
09/13: Reminder of the lab rules posted above. Quiz 1, pre-labs of 56A and 56B collected. Benzoin to benzil reaction.
09/20: Quiz 2, pre-lab 56C collected. Benzil to Benzilic acid reaction. Started taking m.p. and IR of expt. 56 products.
09/27: Set up of phenol propargylation, Quiz 3, pre-lab, IR (Nujol and KBr pellet), melting points of 56 products.
10/04: Quiz 4, Set up of Click Reaction, pre-lab, all IRs and m.p.s of expt. 56 products were recorded.
Discussions (Largely my perspective(s) on any topic(s) being discussed in this course)
09/15: This is an article about why benzil has a light yellow colour. http://www.chem.latech.edu/~upali/chem254/BENZIL.pdf
My only problem with the article is, it says that the conjugation involves all 14 atoms. I don't see how the other benzene ring is involved in the conjugation at the same time. If it did, the colour would have been more intense.
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09/20: This article is about the mechanism of Benzilic acid rearrangement:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja01542a060
09/21: Although the Click Chemistry is widely used, these are just two examples of its applications:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.200802516
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/py/c1py00041a#!divAbstract
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10/04: An interesting article about IR stretch of OH http://www.che.hw.ac.uk/teaching/cheak2/B18OA1/Webtest/Alcohol.html
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10/10: Important resource about polymer molecular weights: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~wwschlo/POLYFiles/POLY102.pdf
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10/26: Readings about column chromatography and Cross-Coupling Reactions
Column Chromatography: http://courses.chem.psu.edu/chem36/Experiments/PDF's_for_techniques/CC.pdf
Cross-Coupling Reactions: http://www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/marcetta/chem462/lectures/Eshon-Vangal-Cross%20Coupling%20Reactions.pdf
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