1. Please define "reflux."

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For the first section, answer in YOUR OWN WORDS These are ALL common problems in an organic lab.
1. Please define "reflux."
2. When you are refluxing, your reactants have become a brown solid. What might have gone
wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the lab?
3. You completed a lab which required refluxing. At the end, you realize that you still have your
reactants. No product was formed. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do
when you redo the lab?
4. You are refluxing. After a few minutes of heating, your round bottom flask shatters. What might
have gone wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the lab?
5. Define bumping as it applies to organic chemistry.
6. You are refluxing your reactants and the solution is bumping. What might have gone wrong?
What do you need to do when you redo the lab?
7. You are working on isolating your product by distillation. No distillate is collected. Assuming that
there is product, what might have gone wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the
isolation process?
8. You are trying to recrystallize your product. No crystals are forming. Assuming that there is
product, what might have gone wrong? What do you need to do to isolate your product?
9. You are trying to recrystallize your product. As you place your flask into an ice water bath,
shatters. What might have gone wrong? What are you going to do differently when you redo
it
this lab?
10. You need to recrystallize your product at a temperature less than 0° degrees Celsius. What are
you going to do?
11. You are checking your product by determining the melting point range. It is difficult to get the
product to the bottom of the capillary tube. What might have gone wrong? What do you need
to do now?
12. You are checking your product by determining the melting point range. The melting point range
is over 10 degrees. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now?
13. You are calculating your percent yield. It is over 100. What might have gone wrong? What do
you need to do now?
Transcribed Image Text:Final Lab Assignment Name: For the first section, answer in YOUR OWN WORDS These are ALL common problems in an organic lab. 1. Please define "reflux." 2. When you are refluxing, your reactants have become a brown solid. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the lab? 3. You completed a lab which required refluxing. At the end, you realize that you still have your reactants. No product was formed. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the lab? 4. You are refluxing. After a few minutes of heating, your round bottom flask shatters. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the lab? 5. Define bumping as it applies to organic chemistry. 6. You are refluxing your reactants and the solution is bumping. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the lab? 7. You are working on isolating your product by distillation. No distillate is collected. Assuming that there is product, what might have gone wrong? What do you need to do when you redo the isolation process? 8. You are trying to recrystallize your product. No crystals are forming. Assuming that there is product, what might have gone wrong? What do you need to do to isolate your product? 9. You are trying to recrystallize your product. As you place your flask into an ice water bath, shatters. What might have gone wrong? What are you going to do differently when you redo it this lab? 10. You need to recrystallize your product at a temperature less than 0° degrees Celsius. What are you going to do? 11. You are checking your product by determining the melting point range. It is difficult to get the product to the bottom of the capillary tube. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now? 12. You are checking your product by determining the melting point range. The melting point range is over 10 degrees. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now? 13. You are calculating your percent yield. It is over 100. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now?
15. You isolated your product. It is the wrong color. What might have gone wrong? What do you
need to do now?
16. You have finished a synthesis. You are expecting crystals. Your product is an oily liquid. What
might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now?
17. You are working on a synthesis. It needs to reflux for 3 hours. You are a carbon-based life form
that requires food, drink, and visits to the restroom. What do you do?
18. You perform a TLC comparison to confirm purity and identity of your product. All your spots
expand into long smudges. The Rf values are inconclusive. What might have gone wrong? What
do you need to do now?
19. You have left your product to dry for a week. When you return, there is nothing left. What might
have gone wrong? What should you have done to prevent this?
20. Shepherd University has resources to help you prepare for organic chemistry experiments.
Please list 3 different free resources available to you if you need help in the spring.
The next section is True or False. Explain your answer.
1. It is okay to use different scales during one experiment.
2. If you forget to record the mass of your vial before adding your product, you can just determine
the mass with the product, clean the vial, and then subtract the mass of the clean vial from the
mass of the vial with your product.
3. The last steps in cleaning glassware is rinsing with distilled water and drying in an air stream or
with paper towels.
4. Safety glasses are as good as safety goggles in an organic laboratory.
5. If the water in your warm water bath cools down, just reheat it with a Bunsen burner.
6. Rather than opening and closing and opening and closing and opening and closing the window
to the hood in an organic lab, just leave it open.
7. When you need to determine the number of moles of a reactant, determining the volume and
using density is as accurate as determining the mass.
8. It doesn't matter how much drying agent you use as long as you use more than enough.
9. Scraping your product from a glass-fritted disk or from a piece of filter paper will work if you
forget to determine the mass of the disk or the filter paper before isolating your product.
10. Rather than taking good notes, just photograph your experiment frequently.
Transcribed Image Text:15. You isolated your product. It is the wrong color. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now? 16. You have finished a synthesis. You are expecting crystals. Your product is an oily liquid. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now? 17. You are working on a synthesis. It needs to reflux for 3 hours. You are a carbon-based life form that requires food, drink, and visits to the restroom. What do you do? 18. You perform a TLC comparison to confirm purity and identity of your product. All your spots expand into long smudges. The Rf values are inconclusive. What might have gone wrong? What do you need to do now? 19. You have left your product to dry for a week. When you return, there is nothing left. What might have gone wrong? What should you have done to prevent this? 20. Shepherd University has resources to help you prepare for organic chemistry experiments. Please list 3 different free resources available to you if you need help in the spring. The next section is True or False. Explain your answer. 1. It is okay to use different scales during one experiment. 2. If you forget to record the mass of your vial before adding your product, you can just determine the mass with the product, clean the vial, and then subtract the mass of the clean vial from the mass of the vial with your product. 3. The last steps in cleaning glassware is rinsing with distilled water and drying in an air stream or with paper towels. 4. Safety glasses are as good as safety goggles in an organic laboratory. 5. If the water in your warm water bath cools down, just reheat it with a Bunsen burner. 6. Rather than opening and closing and opening and closing and opening and closing the window to the hood in an organic lab, just leave it open. 7. When you need to determine the number of moles of a reactant, determining the volume and using density is as accurate as determining the mass. 8. It doesn't matter how much drying agent you use as long as you use more than enough. 9. Scraping your product from a glass-fritted disk or from a piece of filter paper will work if you forget to determine the mass of the disk or the filter paper before isolating your product. 10. Rather than taking good notes, just photograph your experiment frequently.
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