New Experiments in Physical and Organic Chemistry and Student Research in Surface Chemistry Using Fourier Transorm Infrared Spectroscopy

本科化学教育的不足之一是不重视与化学前沿研究直接相关的实验室实验。这个项目实施了几个表面化学实验来研究氧化物负载的金属催化剂上的气体吸附，一个学生研究项目来研究烯烃氢甲酰化反应的机理，以及两个新的有机化学现象、表面科学和超真空技术实验，以及对几个基本化学概念的见解。这种仪器包括FTIR、专门为表面化学研究设计的真空气体管路和温度相关研究的温度控制器，为本科生提供了接触当前一些主要方向的迫切需要的机会，以及一些最先进的仪器设备的实践经验。该机构正在将NSF的拨款与同等数额的资金相匹配。

One of the deficiencies of the undergraduate chemical education is a lack of emphasis on current laboratory experiments that directly relate to frontier chemical research. This project implements several surface chemistry experiments to study gas adsorption on oxide-supported metal catalysts, a student research project to study the mechanism involved in the hydroformylation of olefins and two new experiments in organic chemistry phenomena, surface science and ultra vacuum techniques as well as insights into several fundamental chemical concepts. This instrumentation, which includes a FTIR, a vacuum-gas line specially designed for surface chemistry studies and a temperature controller for temperature-dependant studies, provides undergraduate the much needed exposure to some current major direction is chemical research and some hands-on experience in state-of-the-art instrumentation. The institution is matching the NSF grant with an equal amount of funds.