for your information: the two compounds I were assigned/analyzed in Experiment 1 are cyclohexene(liquid, my compound), Piperonyl alcohol (solid, partner’s compound). This is a very simple exercise to demonstrate that you are individually using the software program ChemDraw Ultra (you can download a copy for yourself using these directionsPreview the document, or you can use the lab computers or SLC computers during your lab time – but take off your PPE to go to the SLC). There are handy quick tools for drawing structures in the folder in Files. You must use this program to draw Lewis structures (specifically highlight all those bonds) for the two compounds you were assigned/analyzed in Experiment 1. Remember that this is individual – each person’s ChemDraw structures should be generated individually (they should not be shared by people – the point of the assignment is to get you, individually, introduced to this program so you can use it efficiently in the future. For each of these same two compounds (one solid, one liquid), you will take an IR (make sure peaks are identified). Merge the ChemDraw structure with its corresponding IR spectrum (Bring the IR picture and the ChemDraw structure to Power Point or to Word, or use other method(s) of copy/paste) and try to identify peaks that could represent individual bonds in your compound. You should use IR tablesPreview the document to do this. For instance, you might draw an arrow from a bond in your molecule to a peak in your spectrum using the ranges of peaks correlated to bonds in these tables. Then write a short description (full sentences) that highlights the bond(s) that represent specific functional groups or bonds/bonding patterns in your structure. The goal here is to have you communicate your analysis of the spectral data correctly and efficiently in words. Again one pdf of this (containing analyses of two IR spectra and two ChemDraw structures) should be uploaded.
