Special Topics – Chemistry

Josh,

We don’t have a micropipette. I think we may not need them. If we transfer the pH-adjusted solutions to a separatory funnels before adding the ethyl acetate, you should be able to draw off the water phase without the micropipette.

I would like for you to do both the filter and the spectrophotometry analysis. I have a procedure for analyzing aspirin content with a Spec 20 that we could adapt in place of the one on the PET site. (We need color to use the spec 20) But you should be able to quantify the aspirin content and generate a curve with your data.

As part of your grade, I would like for you to document your experiment in comments to this post. Take photos of each step (if it won’t let you upload them, email them to me and I will post them.

Josh,
Here is the link to a site that has several modules related to brain chemistry. The modules include tutorials, question sheets and labs. Take a look at this site and let me know if it looks like it would be useful for your study. http://www.thepepproject.net/Load/

http://www.chem.arizona.edu/massspec/

http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/Spectrpy/MassSpec/masspec1.htm

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/analysis/masspecmenu.html

http://www.utwente.nl/tnw/smct/nmr_ms/ms/ms_tutorial.pdf

Virtual Mass Spec lab (work through the tutorials and then choose and complete one of the case studies)

http://svmsl.chem.cmu.edu/vmsl/default.htm

Finally remembered…

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/

Work through the exercises in these study guides. There are some text sections included, but you should be using your text and other resources to help you answer the questions. Complete the general reactions study guide first and then work on the electrophilic addition guide.

General Organic Reactions

Electrophilic Addition Reactions for Alkenes and Alkynes

http://bestchoice.net.nz

Look at the public content here that is available for free

The Exam is located here

http://www.chemistryconnections.com/Independent%20study/ST%20Organic%20Exam%201.pdf

Note: the red line in 1a should connect the hydrogen to the second carbon.

Answer on a separate piece of paper. You may use your textbook as a resource. You may not use any other resources.

After you finish. write the following statement and sign your test.

“On my honor, I have neither given nor received help  on this test.”

Have a great break!

Where are we on the lab?

What’s the plan for this week?

What is the plan for next week (Tues and Thurs)?

Let’s plan on a quiz Thursday.

I would like for you to begin working on your wiki. You can divide the topics and each of you get the page started and then you can edit each others pages. You should make this something that will be useful to you in college. Post outlines, details, images, links to useful resources, etc.  Get together and decide on an inital layout, but remember that you can always change it if something isn’t working or you have better ideas as you go.

Comment on your progress in the wiki development and use this post as a place to document your ideas to me and each other.

Here is a link to Daniel’s blog from last year. (http://organicnotes.pbworks.com/)  Comment on what you like about it and ways that it could be more useful. Take a look at any of his links to see if they are good ones that you may want on your wiki.