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 (except for the first week of the fall & spring semesters). Some professors may have office hours elsewhere.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:00 AM	Qiucheng Xu	Abby Rawlings		Cat Avarvarei	Zihao Yue
9:05 AM		Zach Gekow	Alex LaVeck		Jonathan Lee
10:10 AM		Alec Kolodziejczyk	Jade Fullerton	Zachary Blanks
11:15 AM	Jacquie Richardson	Lily Goulding	Jacquie Richardson	Madeline Herbrechtsmeier
12:20 PM	Himanshu Gautam		Antawn Gonzalez	Hunter Koltunski	Zirui Wang
1:25 PM		Andrew Chomas	Zhehao Yuan	Tania Shahvali
2:30 PM		Quinn Brink	Ashley Ley	James Greenwood	Timmy Davis
3:35 PM	Phil Pham		Diego Arredondo
4:40 PM			Max Abreu	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	Diego Arredondo Email	Cat Avarvarei Email	Zachary Blanks Email	Quinn Brink Email	Andrew Chomas Email	Timmy Davis Email
Jade Fullerton Email	Himanshu Gautam Email	Zach Gekow Email	Antawn Gonzalez Email	Lily Goulding Email	James Greenwood Email	Madeline Herbrechtsmeier Email
Kajal Email	Alec Kolodziejczyk Email	Hunter Koltunski Email	Alex LaVeck Email	Jonathan Lee Email	Ashley Ley Email	Phil Pham Email
Abby Rawlings Email	Tania Shahvali Email	Zirui Wang Email	Qiucheng Xu Email	Zhehao Yuan Email	Zihao Yue 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.