CHED 482 |
| We believe that a junior-year laboratory experience such as physical chemistry should give students the opportunity to build and test rigorous chemical models. To that end we are constructing experiments around naphthalene and its geometric isomer azulene in which students predict the differences in their properties through high-level computational chemistry, and then test those predictions in the laboratory. One such experiment involving bomb calorimetry has already been published (JCE 1998, v 75, p 1341). We will review that experiment which compares their heats of formation and discuss the development of experiments comparing their UV, IR, and NMR spectral properties and their reactivity to electrophilic aromatic substitution. |
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Computational Chemistry Investigations for Undergraduates
1:30 PM-4:55 PM, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 San Francisco Marriott -- Salon A1, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |