Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for a Modern Chemistry Curriculum

随着化学实验室对仪器的日益重视，该项目正在将傅里叶变换红外光谱（FT-IR）引入本科课程。如今，FT-IR光谱技术广泛应用于化学研究、工业、法医学和环境监测等领域的化学分析，正在显著提高化学仪器实践的质量。目前可用的新型、低成本、高分辨率的FT-IR光谱仪器，由微型计算机适当、有效地控制，用于数据收集、分析和呈现。FT-IR光谱学的结合直接改善了本科课程的三个领域：分析，有机化学和仪器分析；对物理化学实验室的重大补充和对本科生研究的加强。该仪器是唯一的傅里叶变换光谱仪器，并直接向学生介绍现代计算机辅助时域仪器的实用性，并允许通过教育上优越的实验应用。受资助者正在匹配非联邦来源的奖励。

Consistent with the increasingly instrumental emphasis of laboratories in chemistry, the project is introducing Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) into the undergraduate curriculum. Now, widely used for chemical analysis in academic chemical research, industry, forensics, and environmental monitoring, FT-IR spectroscopy is significantly improving the quality of the chemistry instrumental practice. Presently available are new, lower-cost yet high resolution instruments for FT-IR spectroscopy, appropriately and efficiently controlled by a micro computer for data collection, analysis, and presentation. Incorporation of FT-IR spectroscopy is improving directly three areas of the undergraduate curriculum: analytical, organic chemistry, and instrumental analysis; significant additions to the physical chemistry laboratory and enhancement of undergraduate research. The instrument is the only Fourier-transform spectroscopy instrument and is introducing the students directly to the utility of modern computer assisted time-domain instruments, and is allowing applications through educationally superior experiments. The grantee is matching the award from non-Federal sources.