Organic Chemistry Laboratory II
(Chem 358)
Fall 2011 Semester
08:30 –12:00 a.m Tuesday, A-239
Instructor:
Assist. Prof. Burak Esat
Office: A-340
Phone: 2065
E-mail: besat@fatih.edu.tr
Teaching Assistant:
Res. Asst. Sümeyye Bahçeci
Office: A-225
Phone: 2076
E-mail: sbahceci@fatih.edu.tr
Res. Asst. Ayşe Demir
Office: A-102
Phone: 2073
E-mail: ademir@fatih.edu.tr
Text and Supplies:
 Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual by N. M. Aghatabay et al. Fatih University Publications,
2001.
Course Objectives:
This course will introduce some general synthetic methods for the preparation of common classes of organic
compounds, more techniques and procedures for the practice of experimental Organic Chemistry.
Attendance:
Attendance is mandatory for Pre-Lab conference and Laboratory sessions.
 The maximum number of lab sessions that you are allowed to miss with any acceptable medical
report or permission from your lab instructor is 2. You will have to do make up sessions at the end
of the semester to complete these experiments. You must contact your lab instructor and lab assistant
to arrange the time for these make up sessions before the last lab session of the semester.
 A pre-lab quiz missed due to tardiness will result in a grade of zero from that quiz. There will be no
make-up quiz.
 A pre-lab conference missed due to tardiness will result in a zero grade for the entire experiment.
You will have to attend the experiment as an observer and learn how to do the experiment because
there will be questions related to that experiment in the final exam.
Examinations and grading:
Pre-Lab Quizzes
Techniques Grades
Report Sheet
Final Examination
Total
20 %
10 %
30 %
40 %
100 %
Pre-lab Quizzes will be administered during the first 15 minutes of each lab period. Each Quiz will consist
of 3 or 4 questions. A grade of less than 4/10 from the quiz is failure. The related experiment will be
performed even if you fail in the quiz.
Technical Grade will be determined by the lab assistant’s careful observation of the student’s work, obeying
the rules, cleanliness and tidiness in the laboratory.
Report Sheet entry will be written for each laboratory experiment. The asisstants will initial each
write-up and make appropriate notes, comments, and observations about each one regarding format,
clarity, completeness, grammar, and spelling. The format for writing your report sheet consists of two
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parts: the pre-lab write-up, during the lab write-up and post-lab report. You must write your reports by
using a computer, take its output and give it to your assistant. Reports should be submitted to assistants by
next lab session before starting to the new experiment.
Late work: Please adhere to the deadlines established for Report Write-ups. The penalty for late work will
be -10% for each day past the deadline. You can just postpone your report sheet for maximum of 3
workdays.
Final Examination will be a two-hour written test graded by the instructor. All students enrolled in the
course will take the exam at the scheduled lab period for his/her session.
Lab. Schedule:
Week
Experiment
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The Hydroxyl Group: Reactions of Alcohols and Phenols
2
Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
3
Nucleophilic Substitution (SN2) Reaction
4
Preparation of Triphenylmethanol by Grignard Reaction
5
Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones
6
Preparation of Benzopinacol from Benzophenone
7
Two ways to Synthesise Carboxylic Acid
8
Esters and Esterification
9
Reactions of Carbohydrates
10
Amine and Diazonium Compounds
Preparation and Characterisation of Dyes
Synthetic Polymers
11
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