These are documents produced by me during the fall 2000 term at Montreal's McGill University. I retain all author's rights and privileges. You may use these for research purposes; if you wish to distribute them, e-mail me for permission.
What are you looking for? Philosophy or Organic Chemistry
These are all short (about 500 words) essays dealing
with various issues in Philosophy. To download then, just click on
the link under the description "download now". These essays have
all been awarded a B+ or better.
1-Plato's Doctrine of Recollection: The essay goes on to
discuss the finer parts of Plato's
philosophy on the processes of learning.
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(24k)
2-Descartes' Dreamers and Demons: This is a broad discussion
of Descartes' philosophy from
his first 3 meditations.
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(24k)
3-Russel's Sensory Experience: This one deals with Russel's
views on sensing and his
sense-data postulate
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(26k)
4-Taylor's Determinism, Fatalism and Freedom: This essay
goes through the theories of
Determinism and Fatalism and discusses where freedom
comes into play.
Organic Chemistry Lab Reports:
These documents are assorted reports on various lab techniques and experiments I have carried out. Most of these are complete and they are all in .doc format, just click on the title to download.
1-Recrystallization: The recrystallization of Phthalic Acid
2-Isolation
of Caffeine: Extraction of caffeine from tea leaves and analysis
using Thin Layer
Chromatography
3-Distillation,
VPC: Distillation of a methanol/n-butanol mixture using both simple
and fractional
distillation techniques as well as analysis of the product by Vapor Phase
Chromatography.
4-Steam Distillation: The extraction of cumaldehyde from cumin seeds using steam distillation.
5-Solvent
Extraction: The separation of Benzoic Acid, Ethyl-4-Aminobenzoate
and
9-Fluorenone using differing solvents.
6-Synthesis
of Cyclohexene: Making Cyclohexene from Cyclohexanol via a dehydration
reaction
and isolation of the product by distillation.
7-Stereochemistry:
The synthesis of a meso compound from an optically active species
which
will then undergo an elimination reaction to from an alkene.
8-SN1 vs. SN2: An analysis of two different types of nucleophilic aliphatic substitutions.
9-Williamson
Ether Synthesis: Using the Williamson process to synthesize
Methyl p-Ethylphenyl
Ether from 4-Ethylphenol and Methyl Iodide.
ARG! if ye's had enough, ye might as well go home.
