Lab Report
#1
Purpose:
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Provide an opportunity to write a laboratory report
introduction, including composition of an appropriate thesis statement
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Identify how JOC reports experimental procedures
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Provide an opportunity to write a laboratory report
experimental section
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Provide an opportunity to report the introduction of
the experimental results from the synthesis of Pain Medications lab
(Experiment 1 from the lab manual)
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Introduction:
The introduction of a lab report establishes the background for
the problem, the scientific significance of the problem and the
fundamental question being investigated. Do not confuse goals
and objectives of the experiment with the significance of the
experiment. You want to address why you want to conduct the
experiment and what benefit the experiment will do for the
scientific community. During the composition state of the
process you will want to think about the introduction as being a
funnel. The introduction should start with a broad approach to
the problem and slowly focus the discussion until the thesis
statement is introduced. This allows the audience to be
logically lead into reading the article and thereby facilitating
conveyance of information and development of understanding. It
is appropriate to cite relevant information.
At the conclusion of the introduction, a thesis statement is
presented that will describe the remainder of the report. It
is important that this thesis statement addresses not only what the
problem is, but also provides some insight into how the problem was
addressed.
Experimental:
| Find an article from the Journal of Organic Chemistry that
reports the synthesis of at least one molecule. Find the
experimental section of that article and in one paragraph summarize
how synthetic procedures are reported in JOC. You might want
to look at several examples to help your discussion. What
format is used? How verbose is this section? What
information is provided? What information is not provided?
Explain. What information is provided that you do not have?
Is it important information? Explain. |
| Using this same format, report the experimental section for the
synthesis of your pain medication. Hint: since you did
two experiments, you should have two experimental sections. |
| In addition to the experimental section, please provide one
scheme with your molecular structures depicted and appropriately
designated. |
This entire assignment should be completed in a word processor
using 12 point Times New Roman Font, 0.75" margins, and 1.5 line
spacing. While there is no specified page limit, it is probably
appropriate to be approximately 2 - 4 pages in length. All
structures must be composed in an appropriate electronic program;
hand-drawn structures will not be accepted.
This Lab Report is due on Tuesday,
November 18 at 5:00 pm
