Organic Chemistry Laboratory

The Calibration Test

An asynchronous September investigation: evaluate six chemistry cases in six fresh AI conversations, preserve the output exactly, and save the evidence you will analyze later in the capstone.

September 15–24About 60–75 minutesNo login or nameSecure submission + local backup

Asynchronous Remote Module · Complete during the Canvas window

Why you are doing this before the adipic-acid experiment

A scientist checks an instrument with known examples before trusting it with an unknown sample. Here, the “instrument” is an AI chatbot. Every student evaluates the same six chemistry cases so you can observe what the AI notices, what it overlooks, and whether its reasoning improves when asked to check the work again.

You have not performed the adipic-acid oxidation yet, and that is intentional. This stage captures a standardized AI response set early in the semester. When you run the wet experiment in Module 11, you will have enough chemical and experimental context to audit the saved responses more deeply and decide when an AI evaluation deserves trust.

SeptemberCollect and freeze

Generate eighteen responses, make first-pass annotations, and save your package.

During the courseBuild the chemistry

Learn the spectroscopy, stoichiometry, mechanisms, and evidence limits needed for the audit.

After Module 11Analyze and apply

Reopen the package, verify the arithmetic and chemistry, and connect the calibration to your own results.

No personal laboratory results are needed today. The page supplies the fixed data, exact prompts, planted-flaw explanation, and coding vocabulary. Use your best current scientific judgment; your later capstone analysis will be more detailed.

1

Choose your asynchronous work time

You may begin at any convenient time during the posted Canvas window. Once you begin, complete all six conversations in one uninterrupted sitting so the AI access condition remains as consistent as possible.

  1. Set aside about 60–75 minutes with a stable internet connection.
  2. Keep this collector tab open. In a separate private or incognito window, go to ChatGPT and remain logged out.
  3. Use a separate fresh conversation for each of the six numbered cases.
  4. Copy each prompt exactly from this page and paste each complete response back here.
  5. Do not enter your name, your own laboratory results, or other personal information in either site.

Course rule: the AI output is raw experimental data. Preserve every response complete and unedited, even when it is repetitive, incorrect, or unusually long.

2

Confirm the collection setup

The collector supplies six chemistry cases in a fixed sequence. Your job is to judge each AI response from the chemical evidence. You do not enter personal laboratory data.