Science Education - Chemistry
Organic Chemistry

Introduction to Catalysis
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Ryan Richards — Colorado School of Mines Catalysis is among the most important fields of modern technology and presently ...

Assembly of a Reflux System for Heated Chemical Reactions
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Philip Miller — Imperial College London Many chemical experiments require elevated temperatures before any reaction is ...

Conducting Reactions Below Room Temperature
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Dana Lashley - College of William and Mary Demonstration by: Matt Smith When new bonds are formed in the course of a chemical ...

Schlenk Lines Transfer of Solvents
Source: Hsin-Chun Chiu and Tyler J. Morin, laboratory of Dr. Ian Tonks—University of Minnesota Twin Cities Schlenk lines and high vacuum lines are ...

Degassing Liquids with Freeze-Pump-Thaw Cycling
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Neil Branda — Simon Fraser University Degassing refers to the process by which dissolved gases are removed from a ...

Preparing Anhydrous Reagents and Equipment
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Dana Lashley - College of William and Mary Demonstrated by: Timothy Beck and Lucas Arney Many reactions in organic chemistry are ...

Purifying Compounds by Recrystallization
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Jimmy Franco - Merrimack College Recrystallization is a technique used to purify solid compounds.1 Solids tend to be more ...

Separation of Mixtures via Precipitation
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Ana J. García-Sáez — University of Tübingen Most samples of interest are mixtures of many different ...

Solid-Liquid Extraction
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Jay Deiner — City University of New York Extraction is a crucial step in most chemical analyses. It entails removing the ...

Rotary Evaporation to Remove Solvent
Source: Dr. Melanie Pribisko Yen and Grace Tang — California Institute of Technology Rotary evaporation is a technique most commonly used in organic ...

Fractional Distillation
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Nicholas Leadbeater — University of Connecticut Distillation is perhaps the most common laboratory technique ...

Growing Crystals for X-ray Diffraction Analysis
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Jimmy Franco - Merrimack College X-ray crystallography is a method commonly used to determine the spatial arrangement of atoms ...

Performing 1D Thin Layer Chromatography
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Yuri Bolshan — University of Ontario Institute of Technology Thin layer chromatography (TLC) is a chromatographic method ...

Column Chromatography
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Jimmy Franco - Merrimack College Column chromatography is one of the most useful techniques for purifying compounds. This ...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
Source: Laboratory of Dr. Henrik Sundén – Chalmers University of Technology Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a vital analysis ...