[Reu_journal] Day 1

[Patrick Roberts]

Monday, June 11
   
  This morning, I helped take the chemical inventory in Dr. Starnes' lab and helped set up a column chromatography to separate a molecule with a nitro group at the ortho position from the same molecule with the only difference being a nitro group at the meta position.  We used silica and a 1:2 hexane/ethyl acetate mixture to create the slurry for the column chromatography.  After lunch, we continued inventory and began separation in the cloumn.  I helped test the fractions from the column using TLC plates.  While this was going on, we set up our lab for when we begin our reactions later.  We eventually got separation from the column, collected more samples, and then left for the day.
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