Lab Report Organic Chemistry

In the very first experimental lab for organic chemistry, students are introduced to the world of the microscale which is very important for the organic chemistry experience. This would become a stepping stone for acquiring all the technique and experience in handling organic compounds safely and also effectively. This means to use the tools provided in order to get a better and much deeper understanding of the chemistry when applying it real time to reactions. In this case, the experiment was split up into 2 with exercise 1 split into parts with different tools to be used.
In this lab, the experiment itself is designed to introduce new tools not seen from general chemistry as well as practice with it. There was an automatic pipette which …show more content…
However, before getting to the extraction, students are taught how to calibrate pipettes. This was actually fairly easy because a pipette filled with water could be used as a control pipette to calibrate the volume for the rest. For example, when marking the line for 1mL of water in a pipette, a new pipette could be put side by side to the used one and the lines can transfer thus marking a 1mL point on the new pipette. The biggest difficulty of exercise 2 was actually the extraction of the two liquids because hexane and water were both clear, its density would have to be relied on for identifying which is …show more content…
This proved to be true when there was a sliver line that separated the two liquids appearing like a meniscus or a bubble. It was also difficult trying to extract the water because of how small the conical vial was and there were dangers of spillage or knocking over the vial after it was punctured by the pipette. Not all the water was extracted and the best way to improve technique next time was to extract the water slowly and from the center of the bottom layer. This would reduce air bubbles that could build up and block addition water from being extracted and would most likely get all the water in one