CHEM 30BL
Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
Description: Lecture, one hour; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 30A (or 30AH), 30AL and 30B, with grades of C- or better. Basic experimental techniques in organic synthesis (performing reactions, monitoring reactions, and conducting purifications) and spectroscopy (IR, NMR, mass spectrometry). Synthesis of known organic molecules on microscale level with focus on societal applications. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 3.0
Units: 3.0
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Selling Chemistry 30 BL study guide (used to get an A- in this class in Fall '13). The 15 typed page comprehensive guide includes discussion of key concepts, experimental techniques, summary of expected results and common questions/answers to typical quiz questions for each experiment. All information is easy to follow and organized by experiment name. Note: I did not attend a single lecture and relied solely on this. Price - $20 Text ********** if interested.
Selling Chemistry 30 BL study guide (used to get an A- in this class in Fall '13). The 15 typed page comprehensive guide includes discussion of key concepts, experimental techniques, summary of expected results and common questions/answers to typical quiz questions for each experiment. All information is easy to follow and organized by experiment name. Note: I did not attend a single lecture and relied solely on this. Price - $20 Text ********** if interested.
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Winter 2025 - Deifel is an interesting professor. Firstly, he’s very caring professor who cares about your chemistry learning and is quite a fun guy. He’s willing to really help his students. He is probably one of the most disorganized professors I have (had him twice). He is really bad with deadlines, class organization and just providing a structure to a class. His lectures are okay but pretty disorganized and half him talking about his inorganic background and half talking about random stuff in lecture. This class is pretty much just TLC and extraction. I would suggest when going to lecture, writing down the things that he says will definitely be on the final and writing down the things he repeats as those are the important takeaways he will probably put on the final. The assignments (postlabs/prelabs) are graded by the TAs and can be a mixed bag depending on who is grading your lab assignment. The final exam is pretty fair for the most part, he tells you what kind of questions he will probably ask. In terms of Lab period, the TAs will absolutely carry your lab experience, your TA will probably be the one who teaches you what you need to know specifically about the lab and how to answer certain questions on the post/pre labs. If you get the goat TA Ben Janda, you are in good hands.
Winter 2025 - Deifel is an interesting professor. Firstly, he’s very caring professor who cares about your chemistry learning and is quite a fun guy. He’s willing to really help his students. He is probably one of the most disorganized professors I have (had him twice). He is really bad with deadlines, class organization and just providing a structure to a class. His lectures are okay but pretty disorganized and half him talking about his inorganic background and half talking about random stuff in lecture. This class is pretty much just TLC and extraction. I would suggest when going to lecture, writing down the things that he says will definitely be on the final and writing down the things he repeats as those are the important takeaways he will probably put on the final. The assignments (postlabs/prelabs) are graded by the TAs and can be a mixed bag depending on who is grading your lab assignment. The final exam is pretty fair for the most part, he tells you what kind of questions he will probably ask. In terms of Lab period, the TAs will absolutely carry your lab experience, your TA will probably be the one who teaches you what you need to know specifically about the lab and how to answer certain questions on the post/pre labs. If you get the goat TA Ben Janda, you are in good hands.
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