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

小行星9450984 该项目将购买FT-NMR用于分子结构的统一主题：理论，合成，表征。这种方法涉及化学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分子探针的顺序重要的实验室经验。 该仪器，沿着我们的FT-IR，GC-MS和计算机分子建模是这个项目的基础。在NMR的动手数据采集和解释实验将开发与普通化学开始的所有实验室课程。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。这种当代的实验室设计和教学方法，在课程的早期开始，预计将吸引，告知和教育以下观众：未来的学生;注册学生在科学;学生在化学，生物学和物理学以及化学;区域高中科学教师;化学教师从其他文科院校。

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.