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3/28/09: First lab, Tuesday March 31st, 2 pm inThimann 249, will be check-in and safety training. No lab on Thursday April 2nd, but first lecture will be this week, Friday April 3rd, 2 pm in Crown 104.

3/31/09: Lab notes and refs for Expt. 1 and 2 are now online. Schedule below now updated.

4/10/09: Lab notes and lecture slides for Expt. 3 now online.


Lab Schedule (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2 to 6 pm, Thimann 249)

Week 1
Tuesday, 3 / 31

Lab Check-In, Safety Training

Thursday, 4 / 2
Open day

Friday, 4 / 3

Lecture: Overview of Course and Expt. 1
Week 2
Tuesday, 4 / 7
Expt. 1. Synthesis and Characterization of an Oxygen-Carrying Cobalt Complex which Mimics Hemoglobin: Introduction of Inorganic Synthetic Models of Biological Oxygen Carriers
Thursday, 4 / 9
Expt. 1, cont'd
Friday, 4 / 10
Lecture: Expt. 3
Porous materials, experimental details, literature assignment
Week 3
Tuesday, 4 / 14
Expt. 3 Design Day
Use literature to design protocol (location TBA)
Thursday, 4 / 16
Expt. 1, cont'd
Week 4
Tuesday, 4 / 21
Expt. 1 finishes
Thursday, 4 / 23
Expt. 3 Finalize Design
Application aspect, order reagents, short talks in pairs (location TBA)

Friday, 4 / 24

Lecture: Expt. 2
Organometallic Chemistry
Week 5
Monday, 4 / 27
Expt. 1 report due, 5 pm in 146B box
Tuesday, 4 / 28
Expt. 2. Preparation of an Organometallic Complex with an Sn-Mn bond: Introduction to Organometallic Chemistry
Thursday, 4 / 30
Expt. 2 finishes
Week 6
Monday, 5 / 4
Expt. 2 report due, 5 pm in 146B box
Tuesday, 5 / 5
Expt. 3, Porous Inorganic Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Application in Catalysis
Thursday, 5 / 7
Expt. 3, cont'd
Friday, 5 / 8
Lecture: Expt. 3
Materials Characterization
Week 7
Tuesday, 5 / 12
Expt. 3, cont'd
Thursday, 5 / 14
Expt. 3, cont'd
Week 8
Tuesday, 5 / 19
Expt. 3, cont'd
Thursday, 5 / 21
Expt. 3, cont'd
Week 9
Tuesday, 5 / 26
Expt. 3, cont'd
Thursday, 5 / 28
Workshop on characterization methods, assembling data (location TBA)
Week 10
Tuesday, 6 / 2
Expt. 3 finishes
Thursday, 6 / 4
Expt. 3 Presentations: 6 groups of 2, ~ 10 minutes each,
~ 1.5h with questions (location TBA)
Finals Week
Thursday, 6 / 11
8 to 11 am, final exam period