Lab Techniques
Guidelines for setting up and performing some of the organic laboratory techniques are given. These instructions are not complete and the setup and/or procedure may have to be modified for some experiments. Many more details can be found in your lab book. The main difference is that there are pictures and video clips that you might find useful.
Microscale Steam Distillation of Clove Oil using a Hickman Stillhead
Drying with anhydrous sodium sulfate
Reflux
Extraction and washing
Using the Shimadzu GCMS-
Part 1 (setting up method file) (14 min video)- may take a while to load
Part 2 (setting up data file and injecting sample- liquid with no solvent)
(8 min video- may take a while to load)
Part 3 (data
analysis and generating a report) (10 min video- may take a while to load)
GCMS Reports- written
document of helpful hints