LABORATORY EXPERIMENT Schedule
Welcome to Chemistry 455 for Winter Quarter 2006. Please watch this space for announcements regarding this course. Other items of interest will also be posted from time to time, as appropriate. (notice posted on December 12, 2005)
The first class meeting of the quarter will be on Thursday, January 5 at 11:00 AM. We will meet in Chemistry Building 485. The agenda for this first day will be an introduction to the course, a review of safety policies and check-in instructions, and an introduction to Fourier transforms. (notice posted on December 19, 2005)
Special Notice: In order to be enrolled in this course, each student will be required to take and pass a laboratory safety quiz. This quiz is an on-line quiz, consisting of 25 multiple choice questions. It is your responsibility to take and pass the safety quiz on your own time, during its scheduled hours. The absolute deadline for completion of this requirement is Thursday, January 12 at NOON. If you cannot successfully pass the quiz, you will fail or be dropped from this course! Click here to be directed to the safety quiz information. (notice posted on December 12, 2005))
CLICK HERE to see the group assignments and experiment deadlines. (notice posted on January 6, 2006)
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order to get the chemical shift scale in part-per-million and the peak
picking scale in Hertz units, use the following computer code:
pl ppa pscale vp=vp+80 axis='h' ppf('top') axis='p' vp=vp-80
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Experiment 5 is finally posted! (notice posted on March 2, 2006)
Copy of Course Syllabus Available for Viewing and Downloading
Safety Quiz and Information
Each student is required to take and pass an organic chemistry laboratory safety quiz. This quiz is an on-line quiz, consisting of 25 multiple-choice questions. It is your responsibility to take and pass the safety quiz on your own time, during its scheduled times before Thursday, January 12 at NOON. If you cannot successfully pass the quiz, you will fail or be dropped from this course.
You will be provided with three opportunities to pass the safety quiz. In order to pass during the first administration period, you must obtain a minimum passing score of 20 questions correct out of a total of 25 questions. In order to pass during the second administration period, you must answer at least 21 questions correctly. The threshold for passing the safety quiz increases to 22 questions correct during the third administration period. Failure to pass the safety quiz after three attempts means that you will not be able to continue in the class.
The safety quiz schedule is:
It is your responsibility to take and pass the safety quiz. No make-up quizzes will be given.
The safety quiz will cover material that is provided in the following textbook chapters (from Pavia, Lampman, Kriz, Engel, "Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques: A Microscale Approach, Third Edition.":
A complete review of the material covered by the safety quiz is available at the following URL address:
A complete instruction page for the organic chemistry safety quiz may be found at:
A link to the actual safety quiz is also included at the bottom of the instruction page.
PowerPoint Files Available for Viewing and Downloading (Adobe Acrobat Format)
Laboratory Assignments (Adobe Acrobat Format)
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