A Qualitative Experiment for Organic Chemistry Lab

This experiment was introduced near the end of second semester. The students were told that the unknowns were either an alcohol, a carboxylic acid, an amine, an aldehyde, or a ketone. The identifications were based on melting points or boiling points, the IR and NMR spectra, and a set of four classi...

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Published inJournal of chemical education Vol. 71; no. 11; p. 991
Main Author Hermann, Christine K. F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Easton Division of Chemical Education 01.11.1994
American Chemical Society
Subjects
Boiling points
Chemistry
Laboratories
Melting points
Organic chemistry
Scientific imaging
Supervision
Teaching
New York
United States > US
Second-Year Undergraduate
Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives
Qualitative Analysis
Organic Chemistry
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Summary:This experiment was introduced near the end of second semester. The students were told that the unknowns were either an alcohol, a carboxylic acid, an amine, an aldehyde, or a ketone. The identifications were based on melting points or boiling points, the IR and NMR spectra, and a set of four classification tests.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/ed071p991