Can donor ligands make Pd(OAc)2 a stronger oxidant? (Stahl)

Submitted by Sarah Shaner / Southeast Missouri State University on Mon, 03/20/2023 - 15:29
Description

This Literature Discussion LO was created for the 2023 ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award Winners collection. Professor Shannon Stahl was the recipient of the 2023 Organometallic Chemistry Award. This LO is based on a recent paper from the Stahl group entitled "Can Donor Ligands Make Pd(OAc)2 a Stronger Oxidant? Access to Elusive Palladium(II) Reduction Potentials and Effects of Ancillary Ligands via Palladium(II)/Hydroquinone Reox Equilibria" published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 19678-19688.

SLiThEr #46: Results from a departmental climate survey

Submitted by Chip Nataro / Lafayette College on Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:51
Description

In this SLiThEr, we discuss the construction, implementation and results of a departmental climate survey. Included with the LO are the questions that were administered to students as part of the climate survey.

1FLO: Species distribution diagrams of iron complexes of catechols (Butler)

Submitted by Kari Stone / Lewis University on Thu, 03/09/2023 - 13:07
Description

This LO is submitted in honor of Alison Butler for her 2023 "ACS Award for Distinguished Service in Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry"

"For groundbreaking accomplishments in bioinorganic chemistry and leadership to the national and international chemistry community through the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry" 

National ACS Award Winners 2023 LO Collection

Submitted by Shirley Lin / United States Naval Academy on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 11:47

This collection of learning objects was created to celebrate the National ACS Award Winners 2023 who are members of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry. The list of award winners is shown below. 

A Thousand Manipulatable Inorganic Electron-Counting Problems from Crystallography

Submitted by George Lisensky / Beloit College on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 14:40
Description

One thousand interactive organometallic and coordination complexes have been selected and prepared for practice and discovery in electron counting problems. The structures can be displayed and manipulated without requiring software installation using a web browser with JavaScript and JSmol.

SLiThEr #45 on Teaching f-block Chemistry

Submitted by Kari Stone / Lewis University on Wed, 02/15/2023 - 13:22
Description

Patrick Barber (The University of West Florida) demonstrates strategies to teach f-block chemistry to undergraduates.

SLiThEr #44: What I learned at PEER

Submitted by Kyle Grice / DePaul University on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 21:40
Description

Dr. Black shares what she learned at a workshop on Discipline-Based Education Research! 

Here's the video: