Formal Laboratory Report

You will write a formal laboratory report for the experiment titled "Nucleophilic Substitution of Alkyl Halides" you carried out in the lab.

Your report will be somewhat similar in format to that of a paper found in a scientific journal and needs to contain the following sections:

Scientific papers typically are written in the passive voice, and your paper is to follow this convention. The paper is to be typed using 1" top and bottom margins and 1.5" left and right margins. You must use a sarif style font (sarif fonts are easier to read for a typed document, and sans sarif fonts are better for projection; if you do not know the difference between sarif and sans sarif fonts, you should look it up). Equations, structures, figures, etc may not be hand-drawn into your report. You can download a free structure drawing program called ChemSketch. A link is provided below. Your references must follow the format shown in "The ACS Style Guide" which is available in the Reference Room of the Hamersly Library. The instructor also has a copy, and it is on sale at the bookstore. You might want to buy a copy if you are going to take Ch 350 or Ch 407 in the future.

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