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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
This literature discussion learning object describes the isolation and structure of tetrabenzylthorium, a molecule that was synthesized many years ago but was never thoroughly characterized.
This literature discussion LO was created for the ACS National Award Winners 2024 collection. Dr. Holger Braunschweig was the recipient of the 2024 M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry. This LO is based on a figure from the article "Transition metal borylene complexes" published in Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 3197. DOI: 10.1039/c3cs35510a.
In fall 2023, Jarad Mason from Harvard University was awarded the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry for his contributions to the fields of phase-change materials, microporous materials, and materials chemistry. In this literature discussion, students will examine his recent paper “Microporous water with high gas solubilities," Nature 2022, 608, 712-718 which is related to that work.
This LO was written by the IONiC Leadership Council to celebrate Steve Koch as the recipient of the 2024 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. Steve has been a major supporter of the IONiC community since its inception. This LO is based on the article New Members of the Class of [Fe(CN)x(CO)y] Compounds. published in Inorganic Chemistry (DOI: 10.1021/ic015604y).