Improving Chemistry Instruction with Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy

购买FT-IR光谱仪使化学专业的学生能够亲身体验用于阐明分子结构和成键的最重要的工具之一。FT-IR被纳入化学系的有机实验室和为所有初级和高级专业提供服务的综合实验室序列中。教授们能够加强目前正在进行的有机实验，并在有机课程和综合实验序列中增加更现代、更具指导性的实验。该仪器还对学生的研究产生了重大影响。所选的IR操作和维护简单，但为广泛的本科生应用提供了足够的复杂性。该机构正在将NSF的拨款与同等数额的资金相匹配。

Acquisition of a FT-IR spectrometer enables chemistry students to gain hands-on experience with one of the most important tools used in the elucidation of structure and bonding in molecules. FT-IR is incorporated into the Chemistry Department's organic laboratory and into its integrated laboratory sequence which serves all junior and senior majors. Professors are able to enhance organic experiments currently being performed and add more modern and instructionally richer experiments to the organic course and to the integrated lab sequence. The instrument also has a major impact on student research. The IR chosen is simple to operate and maintain, yet provides sufficient sophistication for a wide range of undergraduate applications. The institution is matching the NSF grant with an equal amount of funds.