ELEMENTARY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: CHEM 341 or concurrent enrollment. Not open to students with credit for CHEM 344 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Physical Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Use spectroscopic data to elucidate chemical structures and analyze samples of pure and impure mixtures. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Safely use basic organic chemistry apparatus, glassware, and techniques for the synthesis, isolation, and purification of organic molecules. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Obtain and use computational data to support their analysis of a molecular structure and/or reaction outcome. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Use the electronic and molecular structure of organic molecules to predict and rationalize chemical reactivity. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Construct and use a reaction energy profile to justify why a particular reaction system is likely to produce the product formed most quickly or which is most stable with an emphasis on the reactions of alcohols, alkyl halides, aromatic compounds, and carbonyl-containing compounds. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Use spectroscopic data to elucidate chemical structures and analyze samples of pure and impure mixtures. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Safely use basic organic chemistry apparatus, glassware, and techniques for the synthesis, isolation, and purification of organic molecules. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Obtain and use computational data to support their analysis of a molecular structure and/or reaction outcome. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Use the electronic and molecular structure of organic molecules to predict and rationalize chemical reactivity. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Construct and use a reaction energy profile to justify why a particular reaction system is likely to produce the product formed most quickly or which is most stable with an emphasis on the reactions of alcohols, alkyl halides, aromatic compounds, and carbonyl-containing compounds. Audience: Undergraduate