Green Chemistry: Characterization of Optically-Active Compounds as a Means for Introducing Chemistry, Nursing, and Non-Science Majors to Environmentally-Benign Laboratory Methods

化学（12）本项目将自动旋光仪整合到护理专业的有机化学、生物化学、有机与生物化学、研究型普通化学实验室、非理科专业化学和本科研究等课程中。标准研究和工业文献中的实验正在被改编。 这种整合的目的是三方面的：促进学生的认识和参与绿色化学，或在经济上负责任的方式减少不利的环境影响，以促进学生的立体化学概念的理解，并增加学生接触到现代仪器，是在工业和学术研究实验室。 这些目标与正在进行的全学院科学课程改革项目的目标相辅相成。 旋光仪与其他仪器结合使用，以表征光学活性产品。 该项目的目标是训练学生在废物形成之前消除废物，使用水作为反应介质，改用可生物降解和无毒的试剂，用催化替代品取代化学计量方法，并了解立体化学作为分类方案。 这后一个目标福尔斯属于一个全校范围的国家科学基金会支持的课程改革赠款，已经在进行中，并将在2000年达到高潮，出版一本适合非科学专业的模块实验室手册。 每年有100多名学生受到该项目的影响。

Chemistry (12)The project integrates an automatic polarimeter into courses including Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Organic and Biochemistry for nursing majors, research-oriented General Chemistry laboratory, Chemistry for non-science majors, and undergraduate research. Experiments from standard research and industrial literature are being adapted. The purpose of this integration is three-fold: to promote student awareness of and participation in green chemistry, or the reduction of adverse environmental impact in an economically responsible manner, to facilitate student understanding of stereochemical concepts, and to increase student exposure to modern instrumentation that is used in industrial and academic research laboratories. These purposes complement the goals of an ongoing Institution-Wide Curriculum Reform Project in science. The polarimeter is used in combination with other instruments to characterize optically-active products. The objectives of this project are to train students to eliminate waste proejcts before they form, use water as a reaction medium, switch to biodegradable and non-toxic reagents, replace stoichiometric methods with catalytic alternatives, and understand stereochemistry as a classification scheme. This latter objective falls under the rubric of a campus-wide NSF-supported curriculum reform grant that is already underway and will culminate in the year 2000 with the publication of a laboratory manual of modules suitable for nonscience majors. Over 100 students per year are impacted by this project.