What does aqueous workup mean?

[JameB]

What does "aqueous workup" mean?

I'm taking a second year organic chemistry and it's a slightly advanced level but I didn't take the 1st year advanced level org.chem. so I may have missed a couple of common terms.

What I don't understand is what does workup mean? At the end of some reaction, my prof just says "then you do aq. w/u" and just leaves it at that because he expects the students to know..

Thanks!

 

[tiny-tim]

Hi JameB!

Top hit on googling "aqueous workup" is http://chem.rochester.edu/~nvd/workup.html