BASIC ORGANIC TECHNIQUES IN CHROMATOGRAPHY (THIN-LAYER, COLUMN AND GAS-LIQUID), FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION, EXTRACTION AND ISOLATION TECHNIQUES, SPECTROSCOPY (NMR, IR, UV & MS) AND CLASSICAL QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS ARE INTRODUCED THROUGH A SERIES OF COMPULSORY EXPERIMENTS. THIS IS FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL EXPERIMENTS WHICH EXPOSE THE STUDENT TO A SELECTION OF TECHNIQUES IN PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (SUCH AS THE INVESTIGATION OF RESONANCE ENERGY RELATED TO UNSATURATED ï?¡, ï?¢ CARBONYL SYSTEM) AND PREPARATIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INVOLVING SOME DISTINCT REACTIONS E.G. THE DIELS-ALDER, PINACOL-PINACOLONE REARRANGEMENT AND THE MICHAEL CONJUGATE ADDITION).
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