Organic Chemistry Lab Demo: Distillations

A demonstration of several distillation techniques (simple distillation, fractional distillation and steam distillation) used in Organic Chemistry labs.

Demonstrations conducted by:
Dr. Scott Allen
Assistant Professor, Chemistry/Physics, University of Tampa

Directed by:
Gordon McClelland
Computing and Information Services, Vassar College

Produced by:
Cristian Opazo
Academic Computing Services, Vassar College

Production Assistants:
Ken Bolton and Steve Taylor
Academic Computing Services, Vassar College

Post-production by:
Becca Marcus
Vassar College, class of 2008
and
John Santos
Vassar College, class of 2007

Thanks to Ed Wroblewski, Film Department, Vassar College

Copyright © 2007, 2008 by Vassar College.
Do not reproduce, download or edit without permission.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Organic
• Chemistry
• Lab
• Distillation
• Fractional
• Steam
• Demo
• Demonstration
• Vassar

[KierstenKay]

Thank you so very much for this, my TA sucks!!!!

[collectivemind513]

7:47

lol'd

[porterwake]

Little baby distillation.

[petalcharm]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[cyclestring]

taught me a lot! thanks! :)

[Bakugantsuvai1]

Thank you for the video it helps me understand for the seperation techniques part of my chemistry test.

[Kidwai03]

Doing Distillation tomorrow! Perfect video, thanks :D

[Reilly444]

My lab manual doesn't have any illustrations to go along with the text, which sucks because I'm a visual learner; this helped immensely. Thank you.

[spotlightman1234]

@gallonofpcp Yes, but there are cheaper distillation methods.

[baghdadi89]

I have this lab next week, but our quiz is on IR,UV-vis and Mass Spectroscopy :(