Desktop experiments for a transition metal chemistry course

CHED 188

Lisa M. Dillenback, Kristin Cederquist, kbc3@psu.edu, David A. Fleming, telex0000@yahoo.com, and Christine D. Keating, keating@chem.psu.edu. Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802
Desktop experiments have been developed for an upper level transition metals course that has only a lecture period and no separate laboratory. This course is generally taken by junior chemistry majors and senior chemical engineering majors and covers topics ranging from group theory to reactions of transition metals to bioinorganic chemistry. The experiments are small-scale and non-toxic, so they are easily performed by the students at their desks during class time. Three desktop lab exercises have already been incorporated into the course, demonstrating the concepts of molecular symmetry, spectroscopy of transition metal complexes, and ligand exchange reactions. Current work involves the development of an experiment for the bioinorganic portion of the course.
 

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7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, March 25, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Poster

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The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007