Liquid waste: filtrates
Solid waste: used pipets, filter paper, product
Keep all reagents in the fume hood and clean up spills with spill mats, NOT the sponges from the sink
Unplug hotplates when the experiment is complete
Disassemble the reflux and filtration apparatuses
Return all shared glassware, cleaned, to its original location
Learning Objectives:
Perform and understand esterification reactions
Purification – acidification & recrystallization
Observe and interpret iron (III) chloride tests for phenols
Interpret infrared (IR) spectra of starting materials and product to determine reaction success
Predict and interpret 1H and 13C NMR spectra of aspirin