The course is comprised of two modules: Module I is a set of three experiments that involve the isolation of organic compounds from natural sources and their characterization as well as the synthesis of polystyrene and a styrene-divinylbenzene co-polymer and the analysis of their solubility. Module II consists in the synthesis of a specific organic compound through multistep synthesis (typically 3 steps) to provide experience in synthetic organic chemistry and advanced spectroscopic analysis. This course is developed in an oriented environment. During this class students are expected to work in pairs. Every pair will be assigned a different synthetic scheme and no specific experimental procedures will be given. Students are expected to search for the experimental procedures using the resources in the URV (books available in the laboratory but also e-books as well as databases such as Scifinder, Reaxys, etc). The students will have to adapt the experimental procedures found in the literature to the scale required which is typically 3 g of final product. In addition, all final products will be characterized using spectroscopic methods that include NMR and FT-IR. Student credit hours for the course are allocated mainly to laboratory time although documental search may be performed out of the laboratory classes.
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