Organic Chemistry Laboratories
Dr. Laurie Starkey, Cal Poly Pomona

Chemistry is an extreme sport!
(how many lab techniques can you name in this video?)

Organic Chemistry II Lab CHM 3150L

CHM 3150L (Fall 2022) Syllabus | Schedule

Lab Notebook information

Components of a Lab Report

Sample notebook pages

Reagent Table practice: blank table | answer key | video solution

Spectroscopy Materials

Spectroscopy handouts (IR, NMR, Mass Spec)

IR correlation chart

¹H NMR introduction lecture (1.5 hours)

sample NMR problem answer key

Lab Techniques

Lab techniques: tutorials (Distillation, Extraction, TLC, Recrystallization, Melting Point)

O-Chem Lab Techniques eBook: FREE downloadable pdf with lots of great pictures  Lab Manual (PDF) (Table of Contents) Online Lab Manual

Got Workups?  What does it mean to work-up a reaction?  What are some typical steps?  Check out Chem LibreText for a discussion and overview.    

MIT OpenCourseWare: Lab Videos and Digital Lab Techniques Manual
Kimberly Berkowski, Sarah Tabacco, Aayesha Siddiqui, and Eileen Huang. RES.5-0001 Digital Lab Techniques Manual. Spring 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons.

"Not Voodoo" website - collection of practical techniques, tips and tricks

TLC simulator (video)	TLC (Thin-Layer Chromatography) interactive TLC simulation (and worksheet) simulation walk-through video Information and recipes for TLC stains
Extraction interactive animation (and worksheet) animation walk-through video	Extraction animation (video)

Column Chromatography:

• Wikipedia entry
• W. Clark Still JOC article on rapid "flash" columns (reading guide)
• MIT video
• Not Voodoo website
  

Fractional Distillation apparatus: interactive picture and handout

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Mass Spec calculator ChemCalc (determines possible formulas, given a molecular or fragment mass)
"ChemCalc: a building block for tomorrow’s chemical infrastructure." Patiny, Luc; Borel, Alain
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 201. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ci300563h

Last updated December 2022