This experiment is designed to be a safe and experimentally simple procedure appropriate to the early weeks of a course when halogenation is the only reaction which has been discussed in the lecture. It can also provide some early experience with simple interpretation of NMR spectra.
Supplement
The instructor notes and detailed procedures of the laboratory experiment are contained in one Microsoft Word document, which has been compressed into zip (for Windows) and sit (for Macintosh) files. The material can also be accessed as a pdf file using Acrobat Reader.
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