Advanced Research Techniques in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry (CH260)
January 2004
Gustavus Adolphus College

Dr. Brian A. O'Brien (bobrien@gustavus.edu, tel. 507-933-7310), Instructor

Syllabus (to be linked)


Handouts for Laboratory Projects

All of the handouts accessible from this page are in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (.PDF).
They can be read and printed off via Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, it can be
downloaded free of charge from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html.

Scientific Glassblowing Project

The preparative lab handout pages that follow are accessible
only from computers on the Gustavus campus.

Asymmetric epoxidation using Jacobsen's catalyst - see handout given out in class

Odorant Syntheses (handout)
Odor Chemistry - extensive online reference on odor chemistry (Leffingwell web site)
Monell Chemical Senses Center

Fluorinations with Selectfluor (handout)

Preparation of ionic liquids using an inverter-type microwave oven - full paper

Preparation of Phosphine (a vacuum line synthesis)

Preparation of Germane (a vacuum line synthesis) - paper handout

Preparation of Wilkinson's catalyst [(Ph3P)3RhCl]

31P NMR of Wilkinson's catalyst:
spectrum without integrals
integrated spectrum

Preparation #1 of Ni(COD)2 - experimental procedures only
Preparation #1 of Ni(COD)2 - full paper

Preparation #2 of Ni(COD)2 - full paper

photographs from the course


NMR Materials

NMR Web Resources

NMR Simulation Program - see Dr. O'Brien

Literature Resources

SciFinder Scholar online chemical literature search - see Dr. O'Brien for access instructions.

How to do a traditional literature search

American Chemical Society publications online
Full-text articles of all ACS publications are available at no charge, and can be downloaded.

Royal Society of Chemistry (Britain) publications online (also includes some major Russian journals)

Organic Syntheses online (This is the major series for tabulation of checked synthetic organic procedures.)

Inorganic Syntheses, the inorganic analog of Organic Syntheses, is available in the library.


Miscellaneous Resources

Glassblowing Web Resources

American Chemical Society home page

Good, Entertaining Advice on Oral Presentations

Organic III (CH375) Web Page - contains a number of useful links
Organic II (CH252) Web Page - contains a number of useful links

Brian O'Brien - home page