Organic Chemistry II Laboratory for Majors
A.K.A. How to make carbon-carbon bonds with carbanions, cations, carbenes, radicals, and pericyclic reactions!
Spring 2024
Text: Experimental Organic Chemistry A Small-Scale Approach, 2nd Edition, Wilcox & Wilcox.
Please note that the scale of each experiment may be changed.
James Salvador, jsal at utep dot edu, ext. 5704, contact me via email to setup a Microsoft Teams meeting.
Tuesday Teaching Assistants:
Jeffrey Richards, jsrichards at utep dot edu, ext. 5849
Paulo Dos Santos Correira, prdossantos at miners dot utep dot edu, ext.
Jose Rosales, jarosales at miners dot utep dot edu, ext. 5849
Rui Dong, rdong at miners dot utep dot edu, ext.
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| Week | Dates | First Activity | Second Activity |
| 1 | January 16 & 18 | No TAs, no labs! | |
| 2 | January 23 & 25 | Laboratory Safety-Moodle | |
| 3 | January 30 & February 1 | Benzaldehyde page 75 | Steam Distillation page 293, reference Chapter 7 |
| 4 | February 6 & 8 | Stilbene page 369 | Carbene-Chapter 47 |
| 5 | February 13 &15 | Stilbene continued | Binaphthols-Chapter 46 |
| 6 | February 20 & 22 | Stilbene Dibromide page 370 | Pinacol-Chapter 37 |
| 7 | February 27 & 29 | Diphenylacetylene page 370 | Beckmann-Chapter 25 |
| 8 | March 5 & 7 | Benzoin page 481 | Pinacol continued |
| 9 | March 12 & 14 | Holiday | Holiday |
| 10 | March 19 &21 | Benzoin continued | Friedel Craft Acylation-Chapter 32 (B) |
| 11 | March 26 & 28 | Benzil page 482 | Wolff-Kischner-Article |
| 12 | April 2 & 4 | Dibenzyl Ketone-Article | Electrophonic Aromatic Substitution-Article |
| 13 | April 9 & 11 | Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone page 400 | Carboxylation-Chapter 36 |
| 14 | April 16 & 18 | Hexaphenylbenzene page 438 | Amide, page 193-4 |
| 15 | April 23 &25 | 5-CB-Article | |
| 16 | April 30 & May 2 | LCD Manufacture | |
Required materials (You will be turned away and earn a zero in attendance for missing safety attire!):
- The book
- Goggles (not safety glasses) A seal should form around your eyes.
- Pants (not shorts) Your legs must be covered.
- Shoes (not sandals) Your feet must be completely covered.
- A lab coat
What you should be learning:
- Know the dangers of each laboratory including how to mitigate your risk.
- Read and understand all the chapter and not just the experimental procedure.
- Make sure that you can draw all structures and mechanisms for each lab.
- Be able to apply a given mechanism to other reagents because we are not just cooks!
- Understand which fundamental mechanism you are applying (Addition, Elimination or Substitution) including the stereochemical consequences.
- Understand whether a reaction is an oxidation, reduction or not a net redox reaction.
- Be able to calculate the yield of a
reaction.
- structure to formula conversion,
- formula to molecular weight conversion,
- ml to grams via density and vice-versa,
- grams to moles,
- what is the limiting reagents,
- what is the stoichiometry of the reaction.
- Understand why a particular procedure was followed.
Your grade will consist of:
- 1/3 attendance. You must participate fully in the lab, and not come and go as you please!
- 1/3 laboratory Quizzes. Quizzes will be open only on the Monday of the given lab week.
- 1/3 laboratory Reports. Reports will open on the Friday morning after the lab and close at 11:59 pm of the next Monday.
A > 89.5 %, B > 79.5 %, C > 69.5 %, D > 59.5 %