CHED 1435 |
The Winona State University Chemistry Department is in the third year of its National Science Foundation CCLI grant project. (NSF CCLI #0126470). This grant provided funding for a new 300-MHz FT NMR spectrometer, which is being used in various courses throughout our undergraduate chemistry curriculum. This presentation will focus on the author's experiences with an organic laboratory curriculum that used FT NMR in every experiment starting with the second week. An experiment involving 13C NMR of alkanes was used to introduce basic concepts of chemical shift and chemical equivalence. Subsequent labs used 1H NMR, DEPT, and 2-D spectra to characterize reaction products. Two new experiments not found in published organic laboratory textbooks, one involving the nitration of iodobenzene and the other a microwave-assisted Knoevenagel condensation, gave good results with the products having interesting NMR spectra worthy of closer examination using 2-D techniques. |
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"Hot Topics" in Organic Chemistry
8:00 AM-10:15 AM, Thursday, 17 March 2005 Holiday Inn on the Bay -- Pacific B & C, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |