Unit I Assignments
NOTE: Each assignment is to be completed before the following class meeting; for example, the Wednesday assignment in Week 1 is to be completed before the Friday class meeting.
Week 1: Labs do not meet, but you should read the introductory material in the lab manual (see Page 2 of the lab manual for the assignment) and complete the worksheet given to you in lecture this week so that you can hand it in during your first lab meeting in Week 2.
Monday (Sept. 1) Labor Day—classes do not meet
Wednesday (Sept. 3) Read: 1-1.7 Problems: 1-3, 17-19
(molecular
structure)
Friday (Sept. 5) Read: 1.8-1.12 Problems: 4-6, 27
Week 2: Lab: Check-In; Acetylation of an
Aromatic Amine (Synthesis of Tylenol)
Monday (Sept. 8) Read: 1.13-1.18 Problems: 7-16, 28-33, 35
Wednesday (Sept. 10) Read: 2-2.6 Problems: 1-10
(functional groups)
Friday (Sept. 12) Read: 2.7-2.13 Problems: 11-16, 20-27
Week 3: Lab: Recrystallization
Monday (Sept. 15) Read: 2.14-2.15, 2.17 Problems: 17, 18, 28, 33-37, 39, 41
Wednesday (Sept. 17) Read: 3-3.5 Problems: 1-3, 15, 17, 19, 20, 31
(acids and bases)
Friday (Sept. 19) Read: 3.6-3.16 Problems: 4, 5, 7-9, 16, 18, 23-25,
30, 32
Week 4: Lab: Melting Point
Determination / Thin-Layer Chromatography
Monday (Sept. 22) Study for Exam I on Wednesday, Sept. 24
Wednesday (Sept. 24) Exam I
Begin Unit 2—Read: 4-4.3 Problems: 1-4, 24