Lab Notebook Guidelines

10 pts total Xpt: Effective In lab Work Practices (Unsafe practices will result in a deduction of points) *Instructor reserves the right to add or remove points for in lab work at her discretion

General: Include the title of each experiment, your name, date, and lab partner(s) if worked with any. Include the title for each section underlined clearly. e.g. Procedure

0.5 pts

1) Reaction: Draw out the organic reaction for each part of the experiment that has one.

1.5 pt

2) Procedure: Split the notebook page down the middle. On the left side write the experimental procedure you will be performing (BEFORE the start of lab). You do not need to copy the procedure in the manual word for word. It is important to keep procedure steps concise but also not vague (i.e. I should be able to reproduce the experiment from your procedure). This should not be done in full sentences but rather in bullet points. eg. Remove impurities o Add the 2.0 g p-phenetidine sample to a beaker with 38 mL of HCl When you are in lab, use the right side to record what you actually did during lab and your observations. Write down temperatures at which the reactions took place, solvents used, exact quantities of reagents you added, initial colors of the reagents e.g. 2.0g of pPhenetidine (colorless or red-brown) added etc). Note any color changes, precipitation, gas evolution, etc. For example, added acetic anhydride dropwise

solution turned blue or added acetic anhydride dropwise solution remained the same ____ color; 5 mins later solution became light blue Any such comments that you think will aid a laboratory scientist to duplicate your work.

3) Data Calculations: 1 pt In this section you need to record any calculations you perform on your data. For example: calculations of mmols ( # mols x 1000) of compounds, theoretical yields, % yields, conversions using densities, etc. Important values should be boxed or circled so that they are easy to see. Each type of calculation should be demonstrated once.

4) Data Table: 1 pt All important data should be summarized neatly in this table. If you have found a boiling point or melting point compare it to the literature value. Values such as melting point, boiling point, amount of product (crude and recrystallized), % yield, and anything of a similar nature that is found during the lab should be in this table.

5) Discussion/Conclusion: 2 pt This should be no longer than 1 page. Be concise but do not leave anything out. Include and label each subsection (A, B, etc.): A. Your data, what it means, and how your results compare to what you expected/literature values.

B. Sources of error in the experiment both quantitative and qualitative. BE SPECIFIC. Human error is not a specific source of error. I spilled some of my solution while transferring it to a beaker is a specific quantitative source of error.

C. Conclusion a few wrap up sentences summarizing the lab.

6) Post-Lab Questions: 3 pts These will come directly out of the lab manual and can be found at the end of most experiments.

General Rules for the Notebook:

(Can lose points if these rules are not followed)

1. Each page needs to be numbered 2. You must write only in blue or black pen in your notebook 3. All errors must be crossed out with a single line no scribbles or white-out! 4. All entries should be neat If something is not readable it cannot and will not be graded

Your notebooks will be collected on the days indicated on the syllabus. It is your responsibility to keep up with all the experiments and post-lab questions that go with them. The notebooks will be graded out of 10 points, which will be normalized at the end across all the TAs (in case some TAs grade tougher than others, and vice versa).