CHEM
2122 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY SYLLABUS
Instructor: ________________________________
Phone: 682-1611 Ext.
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EMAIL: ________________________________
Office
Location: ________________________________
Office
Hours: ________________________________
Learning Materials:
Textbook: Techniques in Organic Chemistry, 3rd
Edition. Mohrig,
Hammond, Schatz. 2010. W.H. Freeman and Co.
Lab Manual: Organic
Chemistry Laboratory Manual. Bailey,
Bailey, Shore, and Vahlberg. 2011.
Provided by the course instructor.
Goggles: Approved
chemical splash goggles
Course Description
Prerequisite: (R) (W) CHEM 2114 with a grade of “C” or better.
2 CREDITS. This laboratory course is intended for
science and chemical engineering majors as well as students seeking to enter
the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. Students
will master common laboratory techniques used to synthesize, separate, purify,
and characterize organic compounds.
Course Competencies
Upon
completion of this course, students will be able to apply common laboratory
techniques to synthesize, purify, and characterize organic compounds. Students will be able to identify and perform
appropriate laboratory techniques to solve specified problems and draw valid,
well-supported conclusions based on the resulting laboratory data. Students will demonstrate mastery of these
skills through a series of pre-laboratory assignments, laboratory experiments
or activities, quizzes, and laboratory practical exams. A list of specific learning objectives for
the course is attached.
Attendance
Attendance and
punctuality are mandatory for
this laboratory course. The following
policies apply:
3.
Penalties
described in the grading policy will apply to all late labs.
Email
Your
OCCC email account (it has the form your.name@email.occc.edu) is your official
school email account. You will be held
responsible for any course information that comes to you via OCCC email. Be sure to check it regularly throughout the semester.
Withdrawing From Class
It
is your responsibility to withdraw from the course if you cannot complete the
course. Your professor cannot withdraw
you for non-attendance. You can withdraw
until the end of the twelfth week during the Spring
and Fall semesters or until the end of the sixth week during the Summer
semester.
Accomodations For Students With Special Needs
Assessment of Student Learning
To
ensure that adequate assessment information is available to allow OCCC to
continuously improve programs and services, you may be asked to participate in
personal interviews, take program and/or general education assessments, which
could be tests, give oral presentations, write assignments, take surveys, or
engage in other activities. You may be
asked to complete the assessments, tests, and other activities during designated times, which may include
class periods. These opportunities are your chance to help
OCCC improve the courses, programs, and services which could affect you and
will certainly impact students in the future.
Declaring a Major
Students
enrolled in this course who plan to complete a
certificate or a degree should officially declare a major and request a faculty
advisor in the area of their major.
The procedure for
declaring a major is as follows:
1.
Request
a Declaration of Major form from the Office of Admissions and Records.
2.
Meet
with a counselor in Counseling and Assessment or a faculty member in your major
to clarify certificate or degree selection.
Return completed form to Counseling and Assessment or to the faculty
member who gave you the form.
3.
Receive
notification of an advisor assignment by mail after processing is
completed. Some degree programs have a
special application procedure and require that a student be assigned to a
counselor before being admitted to the program.
For Diversified Studies majors, degree plans must be submitted for
approval to the Office of Academic Division Support Services. Contact a counselor for additional
information.
Academic Dishonesty:
Although
you may work with a lab partner to complete a few of the experiments in this
course, you are expected to complete all pre-lab assignments, calculations,
conclusions, post-lab questions, quizzes, and lab practicals
independently. Academic dishonesty
(including but not limited to falsifying lab data, copying someone’s work,
plagiarism, and using unauthorized material on quizzes or lab practicals) will not be tolerated. Penalties, including a zero for the
assignment in question or an F for the course, will be imposed for all
incidents of academic dishonesty. A
record of the incident will be forwarded to the Office of the Vice President
for Academic Affairs. Further
disciplinary action may result as well.
Safety Policies
Prior
to participating in the first laboratory experiment, you must successfully complete
several required safety activities:
Failure to comply
with the safety policies may result in disciplinary action which may include
dismissal from the lab period in which the violation occurs with a grade of
zero or an “F” in the course.
Goggle Policy
You
are required to purchase your own pair of chemical splash goggles and to wear
those goggles at all times in the laboratory.
You may purchase your goggles in the OCCC bookstore. If you choose to purchase goggles elsewhere,
they must be approved by your professor.
Woodworking goggles are NOT
acceptable. If your goggles have vent covers that can be opened, they must be
closed at all times during use.
If
you forget your goggles, you must purchase another pair from the OCCC Bookstore
to use or you must complete the lab as a make-up (with all associated late
penalties).
The
OCCC Chemistry faculty has a zero tolerance policy on goggle violations. Failing
to wear or removing your goggles during lab may result in dismissal from the
laboratory and a grade of zero for that lab. Repeated violations of the goggle or safety
rules and policies may result in a grade of “F” for the course.
Appropriate Personal Attire
Appropriate personal
attire must be worn while working in the laboratory. You
must wear a shirt with sleeves that covers the shoulders and entire torso and
either pants or a skirt that covers the entire leg. Tank tops, tube tops, spaghetti straps,
midriff shirts, shorts, and short dresses are not acceptable. Shoes must cover your entire foot, including the toes, the
top of the foot, and the heel. Sandals, flip-flops, slippers, Crocs®, and
other open or perforated shoes are not permitted in the chemistry lab area. In general, wearing a T-shirt, jeans
and tennis shoes will be appropriate to meet the lab safety guidelines. You
will not be allowed to complete the lab if you are not dressed appropriately.
Cell Phones
In
accordance with the OCCC chemistry lab safety policy, cell phones may not be handled in
any way in the chemistry lab.
Under no circumstances are you allowed to answer your cell phone, remove
it from your pocket, backpack, purse, etc, use it as a timer, clock, or
calculator, or handle it in any fashion while in the chemistry lab. Failure
to comply with this policy during
lab may result in dismissal from the laboratory and a grade of zero for that
lab.
Grading
The
grade assigned for this course will be determined by your performance on
pre-lab assignments, laboratory exercises, post-lab questions, laboratory
quizzes, and laboratory practicals. Details about the major assignments follow:
Pre-Lab Assignments: 20 x 10 points + 1 x 20 points = 220 points
With
the exception of two lab exercises, all lab activities have a pre-lab
assignment that must be completed prior to performing the lab experiment. Most pre-lab assignments are worth 10 points;
however, one is worth 20 points. Each
pre-lab assignment is due at the beginning of class (i.e. at the start of the
pre-lab discussion). The following
additional policies apply:
·
The pre-lab
assignment must be completed and submitted to your instructor prior to completing
a lab experiment.
·
Pre-lab assignments
that are submitted after the start of the pre-lab period will receive no
credit.
·
Pre-lab assignments
must be submitted to your professor prior to completing a make-up lab. No credit will be received for the late pre-lab
assignment.
Lab Exercises: 23 x 20 points = 460 points
Each
lab exercise is worth 20 points. For
most experiments, this is divided as follows:
10 points for the experiment, 5 points for the conclusion paragraph, and
5 points for post-lab questions. There are
some exceptions to this point breakdown.
The
following policies apply to the submission of your lab data sheet.
·
Lab
data sheets, including the conclusion and post-lab questions, are due at the
start of the following pre-lab period unless otherwise stated by your
professor.
·
In order to pass this
course you must complete at least 21 out of the 23 lab exercises. This includes the submission of a completed
lab data sheet for each of these lab exercises.
·
Data
sheets for labs which were completed during the scheduled lab period but not
submitted to your instructor on the due date will be accepted for credit as a
“late lab” for one week only. Lab data sheets submitted more than 7
calendar days after the due date will be accepted on a pass/fail basis (for
purposes of meeting the minimum number of completed labs) and will receive no credit.
·
Late labs (those
either submitted late or completed as a make-up lab) will be penalized 5
points.
There
are two make-up lab periods scheduled during the semester. In order to ensure that you are prepared for
a make-up lab, you must complete and submit the corresponding pre-lab
assignment before starting the experiment even though no credit will be
received for the late pre-lab assignment.
Quizzes: 2 x 50 = 100 points
Two
written quizzes will be given during the semester. If you do not take the quiz in-class as
scheduled, you may make-up one late quiz in the
Lab Practicals: 50 + 100 = 150 points
Two
laboratory practical exams will be given during the semester. The “midterm” practical is worth 50 points while
the “final” practical is worth 100 points.
Each of these lab practicals will require you
to use one or more of the lab techniques learned during the semester to solve
practical laboratory problems.
Grading Scale:
The
following grading scale will be used to determine your course grade:
A: 90.0 – 100 %
B: 80.0 – 89.9 %
C: 70.0 – 79.9 %
D: 60.0 – 69.9 %
F: less than 60.0 % or failing to complete the
minimum number of lab exercises.
Transferring Lab Grades
You
may NOT transfer lab grades from a
previous attempt to take CHEM 2122. All
assignments must be completed during the semester you are enrolled in this
course.
Incompletes
An
“I” grade will generally NOT be
given to students in this course. Under
extraordinary circumstances and at the discretion of the instructor, an “I” may
be given to a student. Receiving an “I”
is not a “right” of the student.
SAFETY
AND SECURITY EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
The
health and safety of all our students, faculty, and staff are OCCC's prime
concern. The procedures outlined below
are designed to deal with emergencies of various types. Students should always follow the lead of
their instructors.
Fire
First
notification will come from the fire alarm horns, sirens, and strobes. The class should gather their belongings,
exit the building using the nearest exit, and move to a parking lot. Do not
use the elevators. No alarm should
be treated as a false alarm. Horns,
sirens, and strobes are only used for fire alarms.
Fire (Special
Considerations)
If
someone in your area is not physically capable of descending the stairwell,
please ensure that they remain in the "area
of safe refuge" located just inside each upper-level enclosed fire
stairwell. There are emergency phones
located near each of these areas.
Medical
For
all medical related issues push the "emergency"
button located on each classroom phone.
The phone will display your room number, allowing for fast response to
your location. All security officers are
trained as first responders and will assist in guiding EMSA to your
location. Treat all bodily fluids as if
they were contaminated.
Bomb
If
you receive a bomb threat, document as much information as possible and push
the "emergency" button on
the phone. If the decision to evacuate
is given, the phone will sound an
alarm and display a text
message. The class should gather their
belongings, exit the building using the nearest exit, and move to an open
grassy area. Please turn off all wireless devices. (Cell phones, radios, laptops, and other
portable devices.)
Weather
Tornado
warnings that include OCCC will be sent directly to the classroom phone. The phone will sound an alarm and display
a text message. The class should gather
their belongings, move away from exterior glass and exits, and move to safer
areas. These areas are lower-level
interior classrooms, restrooms, and stairwells.
You should familiarize yourself with the safer areas near your
classroom(s). If the city/county sirens
are sounding and OCCC is not in the
warning area a message will be sent to the classroom phone advising this
information.
Disturbance/Threats
If
someone is causing a disturbance in a classroom, call security
immediately. Push the "emergency" button located on each
classroom phone. Distance yourself from
that person, do not place yourself in the person's exit path and remove all
potential weapons from the area. Shelter in place: If there is an armed person or shooter on
campus: Close and lock your hallway
doors. Turn off the lights, shut the
blinds or move away from exposed areas.
Use desks, tables and other objects to provide protection. Updated information will be sent to the
classroom phone.
Course Objectives for
CHEM 2122
1.
You
will be able to identify the best laboratory techniques that can be used to
solve a specified problem.
2.
You
will be able to apply the laboratory techniques learned in this course and in
General Chemistry to solve problems.
3.
You
will be able to use laboratory data to draw reasonable conclusions. You will be able to write a well-supported
conclusion paragraph.
4.
You
will be able to use common laboratory references, including the CRC Handbook
of Chemistry and Physics, the Aldrich catalog, Fieser
and Fieser’s Reagents for Organic Synthesis,
material safety data sheets (MSDS), and the Internet, to determine the
physical, chemical, structural, and toxicological properties of organic
compounds or reagents.
5.
You
will be able to measure the physical properties, including boiling point,
melting point, refractive index, and solubility, of organic compounds.
6.
You
will be able to characterize and/or identify an organic compound using its
physical and/or chemical properties, thin layer chromatography, and
instrumental techniques including IR, NMR, MS, GC, and GC-MS.
7.
You
will be able to determine the purity of an organic compound and/or the
composition of a mixture of organic compounds.
8.
You
will be able to select and perform common techniques used to separate and/or
purify organic compounds.
9.
You
will be able to use Excel to effectively graph data generated in the laboratory
and to use such graphs to analyze data and draw conclusions.
10.
You
will be able to assign the major peaks in the infrared spectrum of an organic
compound, determine the functional groups present in the compound, and draw a
structure that is consistent with the spectrum and any other data available.
11.
You
will be able to interpret a proton NMR spectrum and use the spectrum to draw a
reasonable structure.
12.
You
will be able to identify the compounds present in a mixture using GC-MS.
13.
You
will be able to use IR, NMR, and/or MS to identify the structure of an organic
compound.
14.
You
will be able to state, identify, describe, explain, and apply the fundamental
concepts related to determining the physical properties of compounds.
15.
You
will be able to state, identify, describe, explain, and apply the fundamental
concepts related to common methods used to separate and/or purify organic
compounds including distillation, recrystallization,
and extraction.
16.
You
will be able to state, identify, describe, explain, and apply the fundamental
concepts related to TLC, GC, and GC-MS.
17.
You
will be able to state, identify, describe, explain, and apply the fundamental
concepts related to instrumental techniques, including IR, NMR, MS, and GC-MS,
that are used to characterize organic compounds.
18.
You
will be able to synthesize, purify, and characterize specified organic
compounds using common laboratory techniques and reactions.
19.
You
will be able to use laboratory data to draw conclusions about the mechanism of an
organic reaction.
Grade Record
Please keep track of
all of your grades. The following table
is provided for your convenience.
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Quizzes |
Lab Practicals |
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Data Sheet |
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Final: |
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12 |
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14 |
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16 |
(out of 20 pts) |
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total |
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