CHED 1635 |
| We began a green organic chemistry program at Hendrix in 2001. I attended the first Green Chemistry in Education Workshop at the University of Oregon, and returned for several subsequent sessions as a speaker. The workshops were an inspirational and eye-opening educational experience. We have described our early deliberations on the implementation of the Hendrix program (“An Asymptotic Approach to the Development of a Green Organic Chemistry Laboratory”, Goodwin, T. E., J. Chem. Educ. 2004, 81, 1187). We have developed additional new green chemistry experiments from the primary research literature and have also adapted traditional experiments to make them more environmentally benign. I will present our philosophies and the products of our experience, and will analyze several examples of our experiments for what they teach and how they do it in a more environmentally friendly manner. |
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Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences (CWCS)
1:30 PM-4:05 PM, Tuesday, March 27, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N230B, Level 2, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |