mass spectra on lab report

[Yonah Ziemba]

There is a lot of confusion about what we are expected to write in our report regarding Mass Spectra. I emailed the TA who is grading this report and pasted her reply to the bottom of this message- it might be helpful for all of us. It seems to me like she does not expect very much, so I won't be spending too much time on it.

Good Luck!

Hi Yonah,

You will not get the MS result of your own product due to some issues, but you are given some MS results from previous analyze, you can analyze the results given on blackboard although these might be different from your compound, identify the main peak in the MS result and briefly talk about it in several sentences.  Additionally, you also need to talk about your own reaction, whether it is successful or not and why.

Best,

Xiaoyan

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Yonah Ziemba <yonah....@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Dr. Cui,

I'm writing my lab report on Experiment 7, but I'm not sure what we are expected to do with the Mass Spectra. In the hand out it says "You will not be required to analyze the MS in detail, but will be given it to confirm the identity of your final compound". I was told that this year we are expected to deal with it differently, but we were not told clearly what we should do instead. I asked some of the TA's during my lab session, and three different TA's told me three different things. I asked some of my friends what they would be doing, but they all were not sure.

       So what exactly are we expected to include in our report regarding mass spectra? Which specific questions should we be trying to answer?

Thanks,
Yonah