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LABORATORY TECHNIQUES VIDEOS

PLEASE VIEW THE RELEVANT VIDEO BEFORE ATTENDING THE LAB CLASS

The following videos demonstrate various techniques that you will use in the organic chemistry laboratory. It is advisable, if you have not already done so, to review the video techniques before you carry out any experiments. If you are viewing the videos in the W1-50 Computer Lab, headphones can be borrowed from Chemistry Stores (W1-32).

Technique	Animated Tutorial	Quick Time	Movie Player	Windows Media File
Handling Chemicals		22.8 MB	33.0 MB	18.7 MB
Melting Point Determination	HTML (New)	11.1 MB	16.1 MB	9.1 MB
Recrystallization - Single Solvent		27.5 MB	39.8 MB	22.5 MB
Recrystallization - Two Solvents		14.2 MB	20.5 MB	11.7 MB
Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)		26.1 MB	37.9 MB	20.3 MB
Filtration		24.9 MB	36.2 MB	20.5 MB
Reflux		13.6 MB	19.7 MB	11.2 MB
Distillation		18.2 MB	26.3 MB	14.8 MB
Distillation at Reduced Pressure		22.6 MB	32.6 MB	18.4 MB
Using a Rotary Evaporator		13.8 MB	19.9 MB	11.1 MB
Using a Separatory Funnel		25.1 MB	36.4 MB	20.4 MB
Special Reaction Conditions		16.8 MB	65.6 MB	13.7 MB
Column Chromatography (Information Only)

Click on each technique title for additional useful information.

Interactive Tutorials - Click on each title for the tutorial session.

NMR Spectroscopy	Answer Key - NMR Problems
IR Spectroscopy
Detective O-Chem
Separation and Isolation

Downloads:

- Quicktime
- Windows Media Player

Animated Tutorial Credits:
DigiTLE - Chunyan Zhang and Raj Boora

Video Credits:
Producer/Director: Lois M. Browne BSc, PhD

Screen Play/Consultants: Craig Railton PhD, MD - Philip Wickens PhD

Stage Hands: Neal Fong BSc, DC - Sandra Kenefick BSc, MSc - Minh Vo BSc, MD

Actors: Jonathan Cartensen BSc, BEd - Timothy Van Vliet BSc, BEd

Production - Media Masters: Nabeal Mansour

Photography - Video Masters: Joey Dusseault

Graphics: Marcia Anstee - Minh Vo BSc, MD

Technical Consultants: Larry Coulson - Todd Demone - Ronald J. Gardner

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