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Organic MSDS's & Modelling Links:

Overview Where to find MSDS
Over 61,000 Full MSDS Fisher Scientific
3D Modelling Cambridge Soft

Organic Chemistry Labs:

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Types of labs include: Synthesis, Extraction, GC, GCMS, NMR, TLC
Summary of MSDS and Physical Properties of Reagents, Intermediates, and Products

Analysis of Analgesic Drugs by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC): Acetaminophen, Aspirin, Caffeine, Ibuprofen, Salicylamide
Analysis of leaded and unleaded gasolines by Gas Chromatograph
Analysis of Pesticides by Gas Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)
Bromination of Acetanilide, Aniline, and Anisole
Diels-Alder of Cyclopentadiene with Maleic Anhydride to synthesize cis-Norbornene-5,6-endo-dicarboxylic anhydride
Hydrolysis of Methyl Salicylate
Isolate the levorotatory enantiomer of racemic alpha-phenylethylamine through resolution and separation
Isolation of Caffeine by extraction and sublimation
Nitration of Methyl Benzoate by electrophilic aromatic substitution and IR for Nujol mull
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) of t-pentyl chloride
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) of 7,7-dichloronorcarane
Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions and Competing Nucleophiles: Nucleophillicities of chloride ions and bromide ions to 1-butanol (n-butyl alcohol), 2-butanol (sec-butyl alcohol) and 2-methyl-2-propanol alcohol (t-butyl alcohol)
Steam Distillation and IR Analysis of Essential Oils (Aromatics)
Synthesis of 5,5-Dimethyl-1,3-cyclohexanedione (Dimedone) Complex Synthesis: A Michael addition reaction, a Claisen-type reaction of a ketone with an ester, and a decarboxylation.
Synthesis of 7,7-dichloronorcarane by Phase Transfer Catalysis: Dichlorocarbene to Cyclohexene
Synthesis of Acetaminophen: p-aminophenol (amine) reacts with acetic anhydride to form the amide
Synthesis of Isopentyl Acetate (isoamyl acetate) by esterification of acetic acid with isopentyl alcohol
Synthesis of N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide under anhydrous conditions by an SN2 reaction under reflux; extraction, purification, and Infra Red spectral analysis
Synthesis of t-pentyl chloride from t-pentyl alcohol and hycrochloric acid

Environmental Science Labs:

Analytical Chemistry Labs:

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Types of labs include: Titrations, Colorimetric, Ksp, ReDox
Actually these were so long ago, I quite forget...I do remember that there was a lot of math though...