Chem 12B Experiments

Lab 0. Organic Chemistry Lab Techniques

Lab 1. Moonshine: Ethanol from Fermentation

Lab 2. What a Pain! Acetaminophen to Phenacetin

Structure Characterization: IR, NMR, and MS

Lab 3. Solar Cell Using Plant Pigments

Tomato Juice Rainbow article (J. Chem. Educ., 1986, 63, 1092-1094)

Lab 4a. Ring Around: Aromaticity and Aromatic Side Chain Reactions

Lab 4b. Ring Around: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions

Lab 4c. Ring Around: Bromination of Acetanilide

Lab 4d. Ring Around: Nitration of Salicylic Acid

Lab 5a. Making Big from Small: Grignard(-like) Reaction

Lab 5b. The Most Practiced Reaction in the World! Maillard Reaction

Lab 6. Acids and Acid Derivatives Reactions

Lab 7. Making Big from Small 2: Aldol Condensation

Lab 8. Multistep Synthesis of a Sunscreen

Lab C. Gas Chromatography and Liquid Chromatography