About the Organic Lab Staff

The lecture courses are taught by the Organic Chemistry faculty on a rotating basis. The organic chemistry laboratories are managed by the Director of Undergraduate Organic Labs. The laboratory classes and recitations for lecture are taught by Teaching Assistants.

Help room schedule

The organic help room is located in Ekeley M1B32. This is a list of when the help room will be staffed by the TAs and professors. Some professors may have office hours elsewhere.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:00 AM		Alexandra Martinez
9:05 AM		Abby Rawlings	Zirui Wang	Austin Bargmann
10:10 AM	Ashley Ley	Max Abreu	Alec Kolodziejczyk
11:15 AM			Jacquie Richardson
12:20 PM	Quinn Brink				Ben Rose
1:25 PM		Akhil Khanal, Alex LaVeck			Akhil Khanal (1:45-2:45), Jamie Stankiewiz
2:30 PM	Cameron Lee			Lukas Gardner	Shota Hasegawa
3:35 PM			Dyuti Chakraborty		Jacquie Richardson
4:40 PM		Kajal

Teaching Assistants

Many TAs teach organic chemistry in any given semester. The best of these TAs are honored with either the John S. Meek Teaching Award or the Patty Feist Teaching Award. The TAs for the current semester are:

Max Abreu Email	Austin Bargmann Email	Quinn Brink Email	Dyuti Chakraborty Email	Timmy Davis Email	Kyle Fisch Email
Lukas Gardner Email	James Greenwood Email	Shota Hasegawa Email	Olivia Jenks Email	Kajal Email	Alec Kolodziejczyk Email
Hunter Koltunski Email	Alex LaVeck Email	Cameron Lee Email	Ashley Ley Email	Ryan McGregor Email	Ethan Miller Email
	Abby Rawlings Email	Ben Rose Email	Jamie Stankiewiz Email	Zirui Wang Email

Director of Undergraduate Organic Labs

Several people have held the position of Director of Organic Labs (a.k.a Lab Coordinator) over the past few years:

• Jacquie Richardson, 2011 - Present
• Andrew McKenzie, 2010 - 2011
• Patty Feist, 1985 - 2010

Jacquie Richardson received her PhD in December 2010 from CU Boulder. She worked with Dave Walba on liquid crystal synthesis and characterization, and served as a TA for several semesters of grad school. She has BS degrees in both chemistry and chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. You can direct any problems, comments, constructive criticism, or praise on the new web site to Jacquie.

E-mail: Jacqueline.Richardson@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-8256
Office: Ekeley M1B30

Patty Feist was the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator from 1985 until her retirement in May 2010. The web site "orgchem" first came to the web in 1997, as a small web site with course information, located physically on a Mac in the stockroom. In the next decade it grew to encompass the techniques of undergraduate organic chemistry teaching labs: distillation, extraction, crystallization, drying, filtration, column, thin layer, and gas chromatography, melting points, solvent removal, and IR, NMR, and mass spectroscopy. Most of the text is authored by Patty; NMR and mass spectroscopy were authored by Tad Koch. All of the html and photo work was done by Patty. She strived to keep the pages simple so that they would both load quickly and work on a variety of platforms, and be accessible to people with disabilities. In 2009, the web site moved to the chem server, but it retains the url "orgchem.colorado.edu".

Patty is the co-author of the third edition of Organic Laboratory Techniques by Fessenden, Fessenden, and Feist (2000, Brooks/Cole Publishing/Cengage Learning). If you have any comments on this text, she'd be pleased to hear them! Any errors, suggestions for new sections, suggestions for sections to delete, sections that would be clearer if re-worded... please direct comments to her (at feist@colorado.edu) so that the next edtion can be even better.