** CHEM 8L is designed with step-by-step Canvas Modules, please read the submission details in each assignment description **
Winter ’23 Materials, provided in case of Canvas outage or file loading issues. Please email Caitlin to let her know of any broken links or missing content, at cambinde@ucsc.edu. For other tech issues: help@ucsc.edu.
- CHEM 8L Lab Manual
- ^ all the readings: experiment background, procedures, pre-lab and lab reports details
- CHEM 8L Workbook
- ^ all the class notes (Fridays) and various activities for the labs
- 🧪 Please visit Slugs@home for previews of every lab! 🎥
Experiments & Supplemental Materials – schedule in syllabus and all assignments submitted on Canvas or GradeScope
🔮 Experiment 1 – Recrystallization of Acetanilide
Recrystallization podcast 🌈 Exp 1, read by Caitlin 🦄
- 8L Class Notes, Experiment 1 – Acetanilide
- Experiment 1 Worksheet – template for lab notebook
- For fun: A tasty crystallization you can do at home!
🟠 Experiment 2 – Isolation of Citrus Oils
Exp 2.1 Distillation podcast…
- 8L Class Notes, Experiment 2
- Experiment 2.1 Worksheet
- GC Activity – Sample Chromatograms – practice calculations to include in Exp 2.1 notebook pages, graded for completeness not correctness!
- Experiment 2.2 Worksheet
Exp 2.2 Gas Chromatography (GC) podcast…
🥬 Experiment 3 – Spinach Extraction & TLC
- 8L Class Notes, Experiment 4
- IR Table of Values
- Exp 4 Worksheet
- Literature Spectra for carvone, wintergreen oil, and aspirin
- IR Demo Video – Please watch before lab!
- Khan Academy Video Tutorials – Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy (check out the full playlist)
💦 Experiment 5 – Dehydration of Methylcyclohexanols
- 8L Class Notes, Experiment 5
- Experiment 5 Worksheet – Dehydration
- IR Table of Values
- IR of Starting Material (use for 1- and 2-methylcyclohexanol)
- Literature Spectra: Methylcyclohexenes
* Experiment 6 – Synthesis of t-Pentyl Chloride*
Exp 6 is a required lab, assignments NOT dropped