I recently attended a workshop on green chemistry and shared with them this great web resource. My question to the group is how many of us incorporate green chemistry into our curriculum? In what ways is green chemistry incorporated, through lecture, lab or both? What sort of resources are people using for this? I plan to post some information from the workshop on the viper site when I have time. I am interested to see how many of us are teaching this to our students.
This literature discussion is based off a Nature article by Buck, Bondi, and Schaak (Buck, M.; Bondi, J.; Schaak, R. Nat Chem 2012, 4, (1), 37-44 DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1195). It spans topics of solid state, crystallography, characterization techniques, and comparing inorganic to organic synthesis.
Concept maps are a visual way to organize and represent information. In this literature discussion, we introduce a novel technique for teaching literature analysis to students where concept maps are used for establishing relationships between the key ideas, theories, procedures, and methods of a proposed literature article. Using the article “Compositionally Tunable Cu2ZnSn(S1-xSex)4 Nanocrystals: Probing the Effect of Se-Inclusion in Mixed Chalcogenide Thin Films” (Riha, S.C.; Parkinson, B.A.; Prieto, A.L. J. Am. Chem.
Thanks to everyone for the blog recommendations. I'm also looking for some good podcast recommendations for the walk to work? Do you have any favorites? Like Keith I'm a huge fan of Chemistry in its element (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcasts/). I'm thinking of using these when I go back to teaching Inorganic Chemistry I in Spring 2014.
Beginning with Volume 43, Issue 25, Inorganic Chemistry began publishing Forums.
Inorganic Chemistry Forums consist of a set of thematically linked papers from leading scientists on a multidisciplinary topic of growing interest. Papers present overviews, research perspectives and original research reports on the Forum theme and are highlighted on the cover of the journal issue in which they appear.
We have prepared a YouTube video demonstrating a visually accessible kinetic isotope effect in the Cr(VI) oxidation process, a reaction commonly encountered in introductory organic chemistry. The demo provides students with an opportunity to see an isotope effect and then understand how it can be used to provide mechanistic evidence for the identification of a rate-determining reaction step.
This is an in-class exercise for upper level inorganic students designed to highlight aspects of symmetry, group theory, MO theory, and Hückel theory. The exercise is an expansion of a Problem Set question I give to my Advanced Inorganic Chemistry class. In this activity, students will develop the MO diagram for the π system of the pentalene dianion using the Hückel approach. They will then consider the effect of folding the ring system using a Walsh diagram.
Bob Morris of the University of Toronto created this website when he was teaching a class on Bioinorganic Chemistry.
Dear friends,
Do you "add" anything to your ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate award like cash or ACS dues or a book?
Thanks.
This is a group activity I developed for my "Introduction to Chemistry" class, which is set up primarily to cover the topics we consider to be prerequisites for the first course in our chemistry sequence at Carleton. However, it covers aspects of thermodynamics (e.g., particularly Hess's Law) that are core topics for most intro courses.