Calendar

In this course, students are divided into two groups for the laboratory experiments. Each group begins working on a different experiment and completes a cycle of four experiments by the end of the semester. As a result, no two groups ever work on the same experiment at the same time. The Experiments Schedule shows this rotation format.

During the first seven weeks of the course, the class attends a series of lectures on the general background and theory relevant to the experiments. Lecture topics are presented in the Lecture Schedule below.

Experiments Schedule

SES # GROUP a GROUP b
1 Laboratory Check-In
2 Kinetics Day 1 NMR Day 1
3 Kinetics Day 2 NMR Day 2
4 Kinetics Day 3

Lab Quiz		 NMR Day 3

Lab Quiz
5 Kinetics Day 4 NMR Day 4
6 NMR Day 1 Kinetics Day 1
7 NMR Day 2

Kinetics Report Due		 Kinetics Day 2

NMR Report Due
8 NMR Day 3

Lab Quiz		 Kinetics Day 3

Lab Quiz
9 NMR Day 4 Kinetics Day 4
10 Unknown C.A. Day 1

NMR Report Due		 Ferrocene Day 1

Kinetics Report Due
11 Unknown C.A. Day 2 Ferrocene Day 2
12 Unknown C.A. Day 3

Lab Quiz		 Ferrocene Day 3

Lab Quiz
13 Unknown C.A. Day 4 Ferrocene Day 4
14 Unknown C.A. Day 5 Ferrocene Day 5
15 Ferrocene Day 1 Unknown C.A. Day 1
16 Ferrocene Day 2

Unknown C.A. Report Due		 Unknown C.A. Day 2

Ferrocene Report Due
17 Ferrocene Day 3

Lab Quiz		 Unknown C.A. Day 3

Lab Quiz
18 Ferrocene Day 4 Unknown C.A. Day 4
19 Ferrocene Day 5 Unknown C.A. Day 5
20 Laboratory Check-Out
21 Ferrocene Oral Reports Unknown C.A. Oral Reports
22 Ferrocene Oral Reports (cont.) Unknown C.A. Oral Reports (cont.)

Lecture Schedule

Lec # Topics
1 Mandatory Safety Lecture
2 Introduction to the Laboratory

Kinetics I
3 NMR I
4 Kinetics II
5 NMR II
6 Data Analysis and Error Analysis
7 Writing Laboratory Reports
8 Unknown Carboxylic Acids I
9 Unknown Carboxylic Acids II
10 Ferrocene I
11 Ferrocene Molecular Orbitals Calculation with Spartan
12 Ferrocene II
13 Oral Report Workshop