Organic Chemistry Lab

Course manual 2023/2024

Course content

The course consists of one introductory lecture and seven full day experiments. The aim of this course is to provide the student with experience with techniques employed in organic chemistry laboratory. Practical applications of the reactions learned in Introduction in organic chemistry such as those of carbonyls, and substitution reactions are part of this course. In addition to performing reactions, students are introduced to purification techniques and spectroscopic analysis. Laboratory procedures include acid-base extraction, distillation, chromatography, crystallization and quantitative multi-step synthesis.

Study materials

Syllabus

• Laboratory manual is provided in CANVAS

Objectives

• The student is able to use common techniques and skills, such as purification, analysis and characterisations of the final products.
• The student is able to work according to the safety rules of an organic chemistry laboratory.
• The student can interpret and analyse the results of multistep synthetic routes in an academic manner.
• The student can write a lab book that contains all the appropriate information to allow another researcher to reproduce the experiment.
• The student is able to write reports in a concise and clear manner, using the appropriate style for organic chemistry experiments.
• The student is able to perform multistep synthetic routes.

Teaching methods

• Hoorcollege
• (Computer)practicum

7 practical sesions

Learning activities

Attendance

Programme's requirements concerning attendance (OER-B):

• Active participation is expected of each student in the course for which he is registered.
• If a student cannot attend an obligatory part of a programme's component due to circumstances beyond his control, he must report in writing to the teacher in question as soon as possible. The teacher, if necessary after consulting the study adviser, may decide to issue the student a replacing assignment.
• It is not allowed to miss obligatory parts of the programme's component if there is no case of circumstances beyond one's control.
• In case of participating qualitatively or quantitatively insufficiently, the examiner can expel a student from further participation in the programme's component or a part of that component. Conditions for sufficient participation are fixed in advance in the study guide and/or on Canvas.

Additional requirements for this course:

Attendance is mandatory

Assessment

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

Timetable

The schedule for this course is published on DataNose.

Contact information

Coordinator

• dr. Tati Fernández Ibáñez