CHE 171L: Mechanistic Organic Chemistry I Lab
Lab Textbook: Lehman, J. W. Operational Organic Chemistry, Prentice Hall

 
Lab Syllabus &Guidelines


Sample Lab Reports*


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Making up labs: Only under serious, documented conditions will students be allowed to make up a lab (typically during
a later lab section of the same week the lab was missed). If you would like to apply to make up a lab, you must complete the
lab make-up application form (link below) and have it signed and approved by your laboratory instructor. Only valid,
documented requestes will be approved. You must present the signed, approved application to the lab instructor and TA
whose lab section you will attend for the make-up. Lab reports for make-up labs are due one week after completing the lab.

Lab Make-up Application Form
Week of
Lab #
Experiment # from Lehman
Experiment
Exercises for Lab Reports
9/7
--
No lab

None. Attend Safety Lecture!!

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9/12
1
1

Learning Basic Operations (p. 20)
Standard Scale parts A and B
Lab Report Rubric 1

#1-4 (p. 26-27)
9/19
2
2

Extraction and Evaporation (p. 28)
Standard Scale
Lab Report Rubric 2

#1, 3-5 (p. 34)
9/26
3
3

Recrystallization and Melting-Point Measurement (p. 35)
Standard Scale
Lab Report Rubric 3

#1-3 (p. 39)
10/3
4
4

Heating Under Reflux (p. 40)
Standard Scale
Lab Report Rubric 4

#1-5 (p. 47-48)
10/10
5
5

Simple Distillation, Gas Chromatography (p. 49)
Standard Scale
Lab Report Rubric 5

#1-3 & 5 (p. 56)
10/17
6
6

Fractional Distillation (p. 58)
Microscale
Lab Report Rubric 6

#1-3 (p. 63)
10/24
7
12

Vacuum Distillation, Optical Rotation (p. 101)
Standard Scale
Lab Report Rubric 7

#2, 3a&c, 5
(p. 106)
10/31
8
15

Thin-Layer Chromatagrophic Analysis of Drug Components (p. 123)
Microscale
Lab Report Rubric 8

#1-3 (p. 127)
11/7
N o lab this week

 
11/14    
Lab Final Exam
  


Laboratory Coordinator: Mr. Jason Yedlinski (jyedlins@depaul.edu)

Lab Section
Day
Instructor
TA
TA E-mail
101
Monday
Dr. Dintzner
Jennifer Skala
feefers1123@yahoo.com
104
Tuesday
Dr. Kharas
Valerie Hummert
vallerina400@hotmail.com
102
Wednesday
Dr. Morsch
Marta Kapala
mk1982@mac.com
105
Thursday
Dr. Kharas
Xylenia Amaya
xyamaya@hotmail.com
103
Friday
Dr. Morsch
Mike McCormick
mmccormick1014@comcast.net
106
Thursday
(5:30-9:30)
Dr. Morsch
Mike Davis
mdavis@ccc.edu