Learning Objectives

• qualitative tests for the presence of carbon-carbon double bonds, hydroxyl and carboxyl functional groups 

• applications and principles of laboratory analysis techniques in verifying components and purity of consumer products, including melting point determination and distillation (simple and fractional)

• measurement of the degree of unsaturation of compounds using iodine

• volumetric analysis, including calculations of excess and limiting reactants using redox titrations (excluding back titrations)