National ACS Award Winners 2022 LO Collection

Submitted by Shirley Lin / United States Naval Academy on Sat, 03/12/2022 - 07:01

This collection of learning objects was created to celebrate the National ACS Award Winners 2022 who are members of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry. The list of award winners is shown below. 

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Submitted by David Randall / Andrews University on Wed, 07/29/2026 - 12:34
Description

AI statements are somewhat obsolete.

Stabilizing Au2+ in a mixed valence 3D halide perovskite: A Literature Discussion

Submitted by Alex Bredar / Middlebury College on Thu, 07/02/2026 - 09:59
Description

This activity focuses on a discussion of the article "Stabilizing Au2+ in a mixed-valence 3D halide perovskite" which was published in 2023 from the Karunadasa group at Stanford University (Lindquist, K.P., Eghdami, A., Deschene, C.R. et al. Stabilizing Au2+ in a mixed-valence 3D halide perovskite. Nat. Chem. 15, 1780–1786 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01305-y)

NYT Connections-Style Game for Lewis/HSAB Theory

Submitted by Emily Mane / Sacred Heart University on Fri, 06/26/2026 - 11:17
Description

This game is modeled after the New York Times (NYT) "Connections" game, in which players are presented with 16 words or phrases and the objective is to sort the words into four groups of four words that are all connected in some way. The game can be done by students individually, in small groups, or even together as a whole class. This game aims to help students practice and/or review concepts related to Lewis acids and bases and hard-soft acid-base theory. In the game, students will be presented with 16 ions or compounds belonging to four different groups.

NYT Connections-Style Game for Ligand Classes

Submitted by Emily Mane / Sacred Heart University on Fri, 06/26/2026 - 11:08
Description

This game is modeled after the New York Times (NYT) "Connections" game, in which players are presented with 16 words or phrases and the objective is to sort the words into four groups of four words that are all connected in some way. The game can be done by students individually, in small groups, or even together as a whole class. This game aims to help students practice and/or review the major classes of ligands. In the game, students are presented with 16 ligands, all belonging to four different classes.

NYT Connections-Style Game for Point Groups

Submitted by Emily Mane / Sacred Heart University on Fri, 06/26/2026 - 10:52
Description

This game is modeled after the New York Times (NYT) "Connections" game, in which players are presented with 16 words or phrases and the objective is to sort the words into four groups of four words that are all connected in some way. The game can be done by students individually, in small groups, or even together as a whole class. This game aims to help students practice and/or review assigning point groups to molecules. In the game, students will be presented with 16 molecules, all belonging to four different point groups.

Impact of Gold Coordination on a Nonclassical Zinc Finger Protein

Submitted by Betsy Jamieson / Smith College on Mon, 06/22/2026 - 11:57
Description

This literature discussion was created for my 300-level elective course in bioinorganic chemistry.  Over the course of the semester, we read a series of 3 papers from Sarah L.J. Michel's lab at the University of Maryland's School of Pharmacy. This paper, "Role of Gold in Inflammation and Tristetraprolin Activity" (https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904837) was the third one we examined. I used it as part of our section on metals in medicine and to discuss additional biochemical/bioinorganic techniques. 

Catalysis CURE Project in Capstone Lab Course

Submitted by Madalyn Radlauer / San Jose State University on Wed, 05/27/2026 - 18:54
Description

In CHEM 146, a capstone course for chemistry majors at San José State University, I run a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) developed in collaboration with many members of the IONiC VIPEr community. This CURE starts with every student in the lab developing and presenting their proposed project to the class (described in a separate LO) and then "fund" (pursue) the top rated proposals in groups of 2 or 3 students.

Catalysis CURE Proposal in Capstone Lab Course

Submitted by Madalyn Radlauer / San Jose State University on Wed, 05/27/2026 - 17:25
Description

In CHEM 146, a capstone course for chemistry majors at San José State University, I run a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) developed in collaboration with many members of the IONiC VIPEr community. This CURE starts with every student in the lab developing and presenting their proposed project to the class. Each proposal is addressing the same overarching scientific aim: to study catalysts for catechol oxidation where at least one of the proposed catalysts has not been used for this reaction before.