Building and Identifying Lab

Hydrocarbons, Alcohols, Aldehydes, and Carboxylic Acids

This lab does not go in your lab book. Follow the directions below to complete the lab.

• Print out the worksheet: Building Organic Molecules 1

• Front side of worksheet: In class, students were given a list of molecules. They completed the front of the worksheet and then built the molecules. Since you are absent, you can not build the molecules, but you can complete the rest of the front side of the worksheet. Your list can be found below.

  • Hexanal

  • 2-Butyne

  • Ethyl Alcohol

  • Methanol

  • Pentanoic Acid

• Back side of worksheet: In class, students then switched lab tables and identified the molecules that another group built. Since you are not in class to see the molecules, pictures are shown below of five different molecules. The black represents carbon, the white represents hydrogen, and the red represents oxygen. Be sure to look for double and triple bonds when examining the pictures.