IGEM:Maryville University-St. Louis/2009/Notebook/Organic Chemistry Notebook

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Description/Abstract
This project involves experiments done at Maryville University for CHEM 203-4. 1 Measurement of Physical Properties 2 The Separation of a 1 L Mixture of Heptanol (bp 153 oC) and Cyclohexanol (bp 160 oC) by Gas Chromatography 3A Simple Distillation at the Semi-Microscale Level: Separation of Ethyl Acetate from trans- 1,2-Dibenzoylethylene 4A Determination of a Partition Coefficient for the System Benzoic Acid, Methylene Chloride and Water 5A Reduction of Cyclohexanone to Cyclohexanol Using a Metal Hydride Reagent 6A Purification of trans-1,2-Dibenzoylethylene 7 The Cannizzaro Reaction with 4-Chlorobenzaldehyde: 4-Chlorobenzoic Acid and 4-Chlorobenzyl Alcohol (two lab periods) 8A The Esterification Reaction: Ethyl Laurate 11A Isolation of an Optically Active Natural Product: Usnic Acid 11B Demonstration of the Purification of Caffeine by Sublimation The second semester includes: Diels-Alder Reaction 14, The Perkin Reaction 18, Aldol Reaction 20, Williamson Synthesis of Ethers 22B, Synthesis of Cyclic Carboxylic Anhydrides: Succinic Anhydride 25A, Phthalic Anhydride 25B, Halogenation: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution to Yield 4-Bromoacetanilide 28, Nitration: 2,5-Dichloronitrobenzene 29A, Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution: 2,4-Dinitrophenylthiocyanate 30, Hypochlorite Oxidation of Methyl Ketones by the Haloform Reaction: Benzoic Acid 34A.