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CM3191 - CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS EXPERIMENTS

Academic Year 23/24 - Semester 2

Assessments:​

  • Risk assessment(s) / Safety Test: 10%

  • Lab Reports: 60%

  • Closed-book Test: 30%

Lecturer: Dr Edith Chan & Dr Zhang Sheng

Lab Instructor: Dr Edith Chan, Dr Foo Maw Lin

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Course Overview: 

  • Synthesis and catalytic activity of ruthenium catalyst

  • Synthesis of ferrocene

  • Synthesis of Jacobsen ligand

  • Diels-Alder reaction

  • Sonogashira coupling​

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Difficulty of the course: Average

Pace of the course: Just Right

Duration provided to prepare for tutorials: >7 Days

Workload of Course (Average number of actual hours spent per week)

​To learn the content: 1 hour

To complete assignments: 6 hours

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REVIEW

What advice would you give to someone considering to take this course?

 

liangai :): DO YOUR LAB REPORTS EARLY! If you want to go home, you better have read the experiment beforehand. Also, exercise common sense.​

 

What did you enjoy or find most useful from this course?

 

liangai :): TAs in Organic portion are knowledgeable.

 

What aspects of the course did you find most challenging, and why?

 

liangai :): Most people (me included) left lab reports to the final few weeks, learn from our mistakes please.

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What resources did you find most helpful in helping you better understand the course material?

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liangai :): Seniors advice (word of mouth) and reference lab reports, which help frame your thinking when writing your own.

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What other courses do you think should be taken before or concurrently with this course?

 

Liangai :): CM3111 and CM3121 are both helpful in allowing you to understand the content covered, especially CM3111 as electron counting is only covered very briefly in CM3191, yet is likely to come out in the test in week 13.

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