Introductory Organic Laboratory

This course provides you with a practical experience in organic chemistry. It helps you become aware of how organic chemistry is an integral component of your everyday life. A lecture will prepare you for each lab session. In the first part of the course you will be trained the basic techniques of separation, isolation, identification and purification of organic compounds from natural sources or synthetic mixtures. In the second part you will perform experimental procedures to synthesize different organic compounds and apply the basic techniques you have learned to separate and purify them.