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. 

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SLiThEr #61: Resources for teaching cyberinfrastructure skills in the chemistry curriculum from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute

Submitted by Kari Stone / Lewis University on Fri, 06/21/2024 - 11:39

Are you interested in how to add computation to your courses? Please join us June 27 at 1pm EST to hear Ashley McDonald (CalPoly-SLO) present “Resources for teaching cyberinfrastructure skills in the chemistry curriculum from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute.” She will describe the Molecular Sciences Software Institute (the MolSSI).

Literature discussion for “Synthesis and characterization of a formal 21-electron cobaltocene derivative.”

Submitted by Wes Farrell / United States Naval Academy on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 14:34
Description

This is a literature discussion regarding electron counting.  It involves several opportunities for students to use CBC to determine electron counts themselves.  Then, it demonstrates the first case of a 21-electron complex, which leads to great discussion regarding the 18-electron rule.  Throughout the discussion, students are introduced to many structural and spectrochemical analyses, some of which may be new to them.

Theoretical Analysis of Fe K-edge XANES on Iron Pentacarbonyl

Submitted by Prajay Patel / University of Dallas on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 15:01
Description

This article focuses on a theoretical analysis of K-edge X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) of Fe(CO)5 in the D3h and C4v geometries. For the context of a one semester inorganic chemistry / physical inorganic chemistry course, the authors use computational methods and experimental X-ray techniques to generate the XANES spectra of two different geometries of Fe(CO)5. Densities of states are used to show overlap between specific orbitals (Fe p with C p), indicating pi-backbonding.

SLiThEr #60: "A Scientist's Guide to Social Media"

Submitted by Matt Cranswick / Oregon State University on Thu, 03/28/2024 - 10:07

Please join us on Wednesday, April 3rd at 12:00 pm Eastern (9:00 am Pacific) for a presentation and workshop by Jen Heemstra (Washington University in St. Louis) titled "A Scientist's Guide to Social Media". This workshop will highlight the basics of social media and provide practice for drafting posts on topics that interest you. Please register here:https://forms.gle/6PN5CX9Pb4FKkfFF9

Energetics of Formate Adsorption on Cu(111) by Calorimetry (Campbell)

Submitted by Nicole Crowder / University of Mary Washington on Fri, 03/15/2024 - 18:45
Description

This literature discussion LO was created for the ACS National Award Winners 2024 collection. Dr. Charles Campbell was the recipient of the 2024 Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis. This LO is based on the article "Energetics of Adsorbed Formate and Formic Acid on Cu(111) by Calorimetry,” (ACS Catal.

1FLO: Ultrafast Electron Localization Dynamics Following Photo-Induced Charge Transfer (McCusker)
Description

This literature discussion was created for the ACS National Award Winners 2024 collection. Dr. James McCusker was the recipient of the Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry.

Shirley Lin / United States Naval Academy Fri, 03/15/2024 - 07:04
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