An FT-NMR Spectrophotometer in the Undergraduate Curriculum

该项目将大约20个新实验引入本科化学课程，并需要使用新的专用本科傅里叶变换核磁共振（FT-NMR）光谱仪。受影响的实验室课程包括有机、分析、物理、生物化学、无机和大分子。此外，教师能够启动新的研究项目，为本科生的参与。在共同努力，以提高其本科教学的各个阶段，化学系是认识到，其专业和非专业面临的科学奋进的各个领域的技术先进的工作场所的事实。学生们必须能够在这个竞技场中有效地竞争。实现这一目标的方法之一是为学生提供现代科学仪器和技术的实践经验。 该部门认为，该部门以前缺乏的最重要的光谱技术是现代FT-NMR仪器。考虑到以前可供常规本科生使用的唯一NMR仪器是Varian T-60，这是一种在操作和技术上都过时的仪器，因此获得一台NMR仪器的决定是明确的。众所周知，现代脉冲核磁共振光谱技术比任何其他单一技术涵盖更广泛的结构信息。 使用NMR的潜在目的是在有机化学的初始实验室课程中向学生介绍相对简单的实验，并随着学生的进步不断建立NMR光谱学的更多样化和更重要的用途。伴随着包括实验证明核磁共振的有用性是建立，在讲座中，基本原则和理论背后的一维和二维核磁共振。 该项目的总体目标是大大加强所有就读化学相关课程的学生的科学教育。个别实验的有效性可以不断审查和评估教师和学生。

This project introduces approximately 20 new experiments into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum and requires the use of a new dedicated undergraduate Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance (FT-NMR) spectrometer. The laboratory courses affected include organic, analytical, physical, biochemistry, inorganic, and macromolecular. Also, the faculty is able to initiate new research projects for undergraduate student participation. In a concerted effort to improve all phases of its undergraduate instruction, the Department of Chemistry is cognizant of the fact that its majors and nonmajors face a technologically advanced workplace in all areas of scientific endeavor. It is imperative that students are able to compete effectively in this arena. One way of achieving this goal is to provide students with hands-on experience with modern scientific instrumentation and techniques. The department believes that the single most important spectroscopic technique previously lacking within the department has been a modern FT-NMR instrument. The decision to obtain one is clear given the fact that the only NMR instrumentation previously available for routine undergraduate use has been a Varian T-60, an instrument that is operationally and technologically antiquated. It is well established that modern pulsed NMR spectroscopy covers a wider range of structural information than any other single technique. The underlying purpose behind the use of the NMR is to introduce the student to relatively simple experiments in the initial laboratory course in organic chemistry and continually build up to more diverse and more important uses of NMR spectroscopy as the student progresses. Concomitant with the inclusion of experiments demonstrating the usefulness of NMR is the build up, in lectures, of the underlying principles and theory behind one- and two-dimensional NMR. The overall objective of this project is to enhance significantly the scientific education of all students who are enrolled in a chemistry-related curriculum. The effectiveness of individual experiments can be constantly reviewed and evaluated by both faculty and students.