Organic Chemistry II Lab
This laboratory course will involve a full-class, full-semester research project aimed at the synthesis of catalysts allowing the use of renewable materials as chemical building blocks. Students will become proficient in synthetic organic laboratory techniques including running and monitoring air- and moisture-sensitive reactions. purifying compounds by extraction, distillation, and column chromatography, and characterizing compounds using physical, spectrometric and spectroscopic techniques, especially NMR and GC/MS.