Malkiat S. Johal
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pomona College 

 

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Chemistry 51 – Accelerated General Chemistry – The Laboratory Site

 

Instructors: Professor Malkiat S. Johal (Wednesday) and Professor Mukesh Aurora (Monday)

Laboratory Assistants: Thomas J. Lane and Megan Warner (Monday); Jenny Lin and Afshin Khan (Wednesday)

 

Welcome to the Chemistry 51 Laboratory Homepage. The laboratory class will meet every Monday and Wednesday between 1:15 pm and 5:00 pm. Information on the location of classes for pre-laboratory presentations can be found by following the Lecture Schedule link shown below. The Fall 2008 laboratory schedule can be downloaded by following the link Laboratory Schedule shown below.

 

Important Information: Laboratory work is only permitted during the scheduled laboratory period.  Plan your work so that you will finish your experiments by the closing time, 5:00 pm.  The duplicate (yellow) pages from your laboratory notebook must be turned in each day to one of the Laboratory Assistants before you leave the laboratory.  Laboratory reports will not be graded unless all duplicate pages for the experiment have been turned in; there will be a 10% penalty each time they are turned in late.  With the exception of Enthalpy of Reaction, laboratory reports are due in class, i.e. at 9:00 am, on the Friday following scheduled completion.  The report for enthalpy of Reaction has two parts.  The section on your determination of the enthalpy change is due in class on Friday after completion of the experimental work.  The section on the derivation of the QSAR is due in class on the following Wednesday.  Reports that are up to one week late receive a 10% penalty; reports that are more than two weeks late will not accepted.  No written work will be accepted after the last day of classes, Wednesday, 10 Dec.

 

Course-related documents/links:

· Fall 2008 Lecture Schedule

· Fall 2008 Laboratory Schedule

· Fall 2008 Reading Assignments

 

The Experiments:

 

 

 

More Resources:   

·        MolData

·        Periodic Table (including periodic trends)

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