Megan Entwistle‚ Maria Amos‚ and Paul Golubic CHEM 0330 Organic Lab 1 Sodium Borohydride Reduction: Diphenylmethanol from Benzophenone 11/16/11 Introduction Redox (shorthand for REDuction-OXidation) reactions are chemical reactions in which the oxidation state (or oxidation number) of atoms has changed. Oxidation can be observed through the loss of electrons or an increase in oxidation state by an atom‚ ion or molecule. Reduction describes the gain of electrons or decrease in oxidation state
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brown and cloudy. The conical vial was then rinsed with 2 ml of anhydrous ether to get any remaining solution into the reaction vessel. Simultaneously‚ 1.09 g of benzophenone and 2ml of anhydrous ether were added to a 3ml conical vial and gently stirred. The reaction vessel was taken off of the hot plate and allowed to cool. The benzophenone was then added to the reaction mixture while stirring vigorously. The conical vial was washed with anhydrous ether and transferred to the mixture. The reaction
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Lab #5: Refraction of Light Theory: Refraction can be defined as the bending of a wave when it enters a medium which causes it to have some reduced speed. In terms of light‚ refraction occurs when the ray passes through some medium which slows its speed; such as water or glass. In this instance the ray tends to bend towards the normal of the medium. The amount of bending or refraction which occurs can be calculated using Snell’s Law (). Objective: To measure the index of refraction of Lucite
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insoluble‚ or partially soluble. Organic Compound Benzophenone Water Methyl Alcohol Hexane Malonic acid Biphenyl 2. Considering the polarities of the compound and the solvent and the potential for hydrogen bonding‚ answer the following: a) There should be a difference in your results between the solubilities of biphenyl and benzophenone in methyl alcohol. What explains this difference? A. B. C. D. Biphenyl has two rings Benzophenone is more polar than biphenyl Biphenyl can form hydrogen
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procedure were benzophenone‚ malonic acid‚ and biphenyl. These three solids were then mixed with water (highly polar)‚ methyl alcohol (intermediately polar)‚ and hexanes (nonpolar). When benzophenone is mixed with water the results turned out to be insoluble because benzophenone is a pure hydrocarbon‚ which are very insoluble in water. When benzophenone was mixed with methyl alcohol‚ it was soluble because Methanol can hydrogen bond to the carbonyl oxygen of benzophenone. When benzophenone was added to
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EXPERIMENT I Photoreduction of Benzophenone Introduction The study of chemical reactions‚ isomerizations and physical behavior that may occur under the influence of visible and/or ultraviolet light is called Photochemistry. The fundamental principles for understanding photochemical transformations are that light must be absorbed by a compound in order for a photochemical reaction to take place‚ and that for each photon of light absorbed by a chemical system only one molecule is activated for
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Lab: investigating hooked law with springs Purpose: to find spring constants of different springs using the slope of a graph of change in heights vs. the weight force. Also‚ to be able to understand how spring constants change when you add springs in a series or paralle Pre lab predictions: We predicted that the graph of gravitational force (mg) as a function of stretch (delta x) would look like Data: Spring #1: y = 8.2941x + 0.0685 This table represents the different distances that
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of the specialized underlying structures of these life-forms. In order for us to appreciate these special adaptation‚ we first need to know how a typical plant or an animal cell organelle behaves in different water and solute concentrations. In this lab‚ we will determine the effects of hypertonic‚ isotonic and hypotonic solutions on plant and animal cells. In general when an animals cell’s placed in hypertonic solution it shrivels; a plant cell on the other hand undergoes plasmolysis. When an animal
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Toxicology Lab 1. In this investigation‚ a wide range of concentrations of Sodium Chloride (NaCl) solution were created and the effects that they had on radish seeds were tested. This ultimately created a doseresponse experiment in which it was detectable whether or not radish seeds were a reliable bioassay for the toxicity of NaCl. The goal of this experiment was to determine a correlation between toxicity and seed germination/radicle
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Abstract: The purpose of this laboratory is to convert benzophenone to diphenylmethanol. This was done by using sodium borohydride to reduce benzophenone. The product was then crystalized from hexanes then using the melting point and IR testing it was possible to characterize it. The melting point range was… Introduction: This lab is possible because of oxidation and reduction reactions. In organic chemistry oxidation is the loss of electron density around a carbon‚ while reduction is an increase
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