Purchase of an NMR Spectrometer to Implement an Integrated Laboratory Curriculum Focused on Molecular Structure

该项目将购买FT-NMR用于统一主题的分子结构：理论，合成，表征。这种方法涉及到化学系教师之间的合作规划，以确保学生广泛使用仪器和计算机作为基本的分子探针，从而获得连续的重要实验室经验。该仪器以及我们的FT-IR， GC-MS和用于分子建模的计算机是本项目的基础。从普通化学开始的所有实验课程都将开发核磁共振的实际数据采集和解释实验。在高级课程和本科研究中，学生将接触到FT-NMR作为探测分子结构和动力学的工具的实用性。这种现代的实验室设计和教学方法，从课程的早期开始，预计将吸引、告知和教育以下受众：未来的学生；招收理科学生；化学、生物、物理和化学专业的学生；区域高中科学教师；其他文理学院的化学教师。

9450984 Thompson The project will purchase an FT-NMR for use in a unifying theme of Molecular Structure: Theory, Synthesis, Characterization. This approach involves cooperative planning among the faculty in chemistry to ensure a sequentially significant laboratory experience with extensive student use of instrumentation and computers as the essential molecular probes. The instrument, along with our FT-IR, and GC-MS, and computers for molecular modeling are the foundation of this project. Hands-on data acquisition and interpretation experiments in NMR will be developed for all the laboratory courses beginning with general chemistry. In upper level courses and undergraduate research, students will be exposed to the utility of FT-NMR as a tool for probing molecular structure and dynamics. This contemporary approach to laboratory design and teaching, beginning at an early point in the curriculum, is expected to attract, inform and educate the following audience: prospective students; enrolled students in the sciences; students in chemistry, biology and physics as well as chemistry; regional high school science teachers; chemistry faculty from other liberal arts colleges.