Enhancement of the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum with FT NMR.

该项目的目标是通过在实验课程中加入基于发现和探究的实验来提高化学课程的教育价值。该项目的关键组成部分是将傅里叶变换核磁共振光谱仪（FT-NMR）的使用整合到实验室课程中，包括普通化学、有机化学、分析化学、物理化学和生物化学以及专题课程。随着课程的进展，学生们正在从事越来越复杂的分子研究。这个项目的智力价值在于将研究技术纳入课程。傅里叶变换核磁共振波谱被认为是化学中最重要和应用最广泛的技术之一，所有化学专业的学生现在都有机会在实验室中使用核磁共振波谱仪。所介绍的实验改编自《化学教育杂志》和一些实验文本，并被挑选出来，以挑战各级学生在课堂上教授的理论和在实验室中应用解决问题的技能之间建立联系。将核磁共振光谱学纳入课程具有显著的广泛影响。它极大地增强了现有实验课程的发现和探究成分，并相应提高了学生的高级认知技能。学生体验发现的兴奋，因为他们从事研究为基础的方法。希望这将鼓励更多的学生从事科学研究工作。该项目对代表性不足的群体产生了重大影响，特别是占皇后学院学生总数75%的女学生。该项目的结果将通过互联网络传播，并在适当的期刊上发表。

Chemistry (12) The goal of the project is to enhance the educational value of the chemistry curriculum by incorporating discovery and inquiry based experiments into laboratory courses. The key component of the project is the integration of the use of a Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (FT-NMR) into the laboratory curriculum, including General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Biochemistry, and special topics courses. Students are engaging in increasingly more sophisticated molecular investigations as they progress through the program. The intellectual merit of the project lies in incorporating research techniques into the curriculum. FT-NMR spectroscopy is recognized as one of the most important and widely used techniques in chemistry, and all chemistry students now have the opportunity to use an NMR spectrometer in the laboratory. The experiments being introduced are adapted from the Journal of Chemical Education and from several laboratory texts, and have been selected to challenge students at all levels to make connections between the theory taught in the classroom and the application of problem solving skills in the laboratory. The incorporation of NMR spectroscopy into the curriculum has significant broader impacts. It is greatly enhancing the discovery and inquiry components of the existing laboratory courses, with a corresponding improvement in the higher order cognitive skills of the students. Students experience the excitement of discovery as they engage in research-based methodology. It is hoped that this will encourage more students to pursue careers in scientific research. The project has a major impact on underrepresented groups, particularly the female students who comprise 75% of the student population at Queens College. The results of the project will be disseminated through the Internet and published in appropriate journals.