Organic 2 Lab Experience

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I was just wondering what kind of experience others have had in their Organic 2 lab in comparison with my own. I go to a small school and our Organic class consists of less than 10 students. All semester we have been running our own HNMR and IR analyses after each experiment. I am just wondering if this is the norm. I like analyzing the data to find whether our product matches up with what was to be expected or not.

 

[Iliketoytles]

I was just wondering what kind of experience others have had in their Organic 2 lab in comparison with my own. I go to a small school and our Organic class consists of less than 10 students. All semester we have been running our own HNMR and IR analyses after each experiment. I am just wondering if this is the norm. I like analyzing the data to find whether our product matches up with what was to be expected or not.

Yup that's pretty much what I did as well (I also go to a small university, although my organic class was larger than 10 students). We also did lots of synthesis reactions, and some UV spec.

 

[dntke1518]

Yup that's pretty much what I did as well (I also go to a small university, although my organic class was larger than 10 students). We also did lots of synthesis reactions, and some UV spec.

Same, smaller university, class of about 40 or so. Lots of IR and NMR, C12, lots of synthesis reactions. We didn't do much UV spec though

 

[GenusTide]

Ummmmm....... nope. I went to a larger university with two sections running in the same lab for every class ( 40-50 students). While we did do all of the standard reactions, we were not permitted to touch the fancy research equipment and our TA's mainly took our samples to another room, ran it, and came back with our results.

 

[CopToEM]

Sounds like my lab! We had 16 students and did all of our own NMR and IR as well!

 

[Iliketoytles]

Loading the sample between the salt disks was the best, although... the person before me messed up so many times and kept scratching the disks I had to rebuff them before I loaded mine EVERY FRIGGIN' TIME.

Oh well, more practice for me. 🙂

 

[Loudster]

We had a larger class, maybe 60 students in the lab. Every student was "issued" a set of salt plates at the beginning of the semester so we didn't have to worry about others scratching ours. Everyone did their own IRs, but we didn't get to do any NMRs sadly 🙁 I kinda wanted to do that.

 

[CopToEM]

It's interesting you guys mention the salt plates - our university switched to using the IR Cards, which she said are more expensive, but were the norm among most undergrads now. That may not be the case after all!

 

[COTA2Phys]

I took it over the summer at my UG and we did the IR and NMR's ourselves too. class size was probably around 15 and the TA was always saying, "hurry up hurry up." lol