Chemistry 2510
Introductory Experimental Organic Chemistry
Spring 2014
Course
Laboratory work related to organic chemistry. Experimental work may include
Description: measurement of physical properties, study of reaction kinetics, and synthesis.
Techniques employed include chromatography, distillation, extraction, recrystallization,
polarimetry and IR spectroscopy.
Class
Meetings:
Textbook:
Notebook:
Instructor:
Office Hours:
Safety:
Lecture: Thursday 11:15 a.m. Baker Lab 200
Lab: Monday 1:25 - 4:25 p.m. Lab TBA or
Lab: Tuesday 8:00 – 11:00 a.m. Lab TBA or
Lab: Tuesday 1:25 - 4:25 p.m. Lab TBA or
Lab: Wednesday 1:25 - 4:25 p.m. Lab TBA or
Lab: Thursday 8:00 – 11:00 a.m. Lab TBA or
Lab: Thursday 1:25 - 4:25 p.m. Lab TBA or
Lab: Friday 1:25 - 4:25 p.m. Lab TBA
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Making the Connections 2: A How-to Guide for Organic Chemistry Lab Techniques,
Anne B. Padias, Hayden McNeil Publishers, 2011, ISBN: 978-073804135-3
Student Lab Notebook with Permanent Binding, Hayden-McNeil Publishing Company.
ISBN: 1-930882-00-9 (100 sheet) or any permanently bound notebook with
individually and sequentially numbered pages (including hand-numbered in ink
(notebook must be completely pre-numbered at start of semester)).
Thomas R. Ruttledge
Dr. Ruttledge:
W: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Th: 2-3 p.m.
F: 2-3 p.m.
138 Baker Lab
Baker Lab 138 255-8864
TA’s:
e-mail: tr45@cornell.edu
Anton Chavez (adc248)
Jessica Daughtry (jld342)
Sam Hein (sjh275)
Janis Jermacks (jj542)
Joshua Judkins (jj388)
Yevgeniy Izrayelit (yi62)
Yashira Negrón Abril (yln3)
Oishika Panda (op56)
Anirudra Paul (ap693)
Dave Vaccarello (dv232)
Qi Zheng (qz93)
Suitable safety glasses must be worn by all students in the laboratories at all times.
Appropriate clothing must be worn to insure your personal safety. Read carefully the
material contained in your text entitled, "Always Safety First” pages 1-4. Also read the
safety information posted in the “First Day Folder” on BlackBoard. Safety should be
your highest priority in the lab at all times. It is our highest priority.
Grading:
Your grade in this course will be based on the following:
Points
Lecture Exam
200
Laboratory Practical
200
Lab Notebook
100
Lab Reports (5 x 40)
200
Safety Policy Adherence
100
TA Evaluation
50
Total Points
850
The written exam and laboratory practical exam provide the opportunity to grade
everybody in the course on a common standard. The remainder of your grade will be
based upon your performance in individual experiments (plus the notebook grade).
Components of individual performance include yields and purity of products, quality of
results, adequacy of preparation for the lab, neatness and efficiency of operation, patience
and consideration for others, observation of safety rules, along with a variety of other
subjectively evaluated qualities.
Exams:
The effect of individual TA’s grading will be made uniform at the end of the course if the
common-graded assignments support a need to do this in your section.
Therefore, you should not worry that your TA grades any individual assignment harder or
easier than other TA’s as the average grade given in every section will be compared to
how your TA’s sections do on the common-graded assignments. If your TA’s report
scores are lower than the course average, yet your TA’s sections written and lab practical
exam averages are above average, then I will adjust your TA’s report scores upward.
Similarly, I would adjust them downward for the opposite case. The important thing is to
improve in the course, following your TA’s suggestions. In order to do well in this
course, preparation is the single most important thing!
There will be two exams for the course, a written prelim and a two-week lab practical
exam.
The written final is scheduled for during the final exam period as follows:
Written Final Exam: TBA, During Final Exam Period Scheduled by
University Registrar.
Location: TBA
The second exam is a two-week lab practical exam, meaning you will be given a
procedure to do and your product (s) will be handed in and its purity and yield quality
evaluated and graded. Your lab technique is obviously important for this exam. More
details will follow about this exam.
Lab Exam #1 – Lab Practical Exam, Weeks 7-8 during your
lab periods (March 12, 2014 - March 25, 2014).
Academic Dishonesty:
Each student in this course is expected to abide by the Cornell University Code of
Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a student in this course for academic
credit will be the student’s own work.
The code, and more information about
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/AIC.html
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Every student is also expected to submit the results that he or she actually
obtained. It is a serious breach of laboratory ethics (i.e., cheating) to do
otherwise. Your laboratory notebook should reflect your work. It must be
accurate, well organized, and kept up to date.
Please be aware that violations of the code will be treated very seriously and I will
pursue the most severe penalty allowed, including expulsion from the university,
for any violation. People who cheat undermine the very essence of a university
and the search for knowledge and, in my opinion, have no place at the university.
There is also an “Academic Integrity” statement, with examples of activities that
would violate the Code, on the BlackBoard site in the “First Day Folder”.
Absences:
Each student is expected to do every experiment, using the proper amounts of
materials specified in the experimental protocol. Make-ups for excused absences
will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Making up or acquiring data (a.k.a. “drylabbing) for an experiment you never performed is academic dishonesty. Makeups due to normal lab mishaps will not be allowed. However, the course is
designed to be completed in the time allowed, if you are organized.
Please note now that the week before and after Spring Break are part of a
restricted period where excused absences and make-ups will not be granted except
in exceptional and compelling personal circumstances. Any such exceptional
request must be personally approved in advance by Dr. Ruttledge. Do NOT book
travel arrangements assuming you can make-up labs during these two weeks.
Check-Out:
All students must appear in person during check out week to check out of their
drawer. If a student withdraws prior to this week, the student must arrange a
check out time with their TA. Failure to check out in a substantial fee being
charged to your bursar account, as well as all TA evaluation and safety adherence
points being forfeited by the student. In addition, all missing/broken glassware
and equipment will be billed to your bursar account.
Deadlines:
All reports and notebooks must be handed in on or before the announced
deadline. Assignments handed in after the deadline will receive severely reduced
credit or no credit.
Administrative Matters:
Ms. Samantha Parker and Ms. Pat Hine (Baker Lab 131, chem2510@cornell.edu,
255.5287) handle all administrative requests for this course, including add/drops,
excused absences, make-ups, etc.
Final Grades:
We cannot reply to any emails asking/debating/wondering about final grades (or
other grades) in this course. Cornell requires that all grades be transmitted
securely using encryption and thus we are not able to discuss or verify grades in
any way via email. For any grade dispute, I would be happy to discuss it with you
in person after grades have been issued. If we have made a mistake (and we work
very hard to avoid any mistakes), it is never too late to correct it, so even upon
your return in the spring semester, we can sit down and discuss your grade. If you
cannot be on campus, then a letter (yes, actually using the postal service) should
be sent to me stating your request, details, and a means (address, phone) of
reaching you.
All students who attend every lab and perform every experiment on time (with
exceptions made for excused absences approved by us), as well as submitting a
real product for all assignments on time and showing up for the mandatory lab
clean up at the end of the semester will have a guarantee of a minimum grade of a
C- in the course. If a student is late on any assignment, late for any lab period,
doesn’t attend lab (without our approval), misses/doesn’t complete the lab clean
up at the end, hands in a non-substantial effort on any assignment, misses the lab
notebook grading, or is found guilty of academic dishonesty in this course, then
the C- minimum grade guarantee is lost and the lowest possible grade for that
student would be an F.