IONiC Social Hour Sunday Evening, ACS

Submitted by Nancy Williams / Scripps College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 18:03
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Are you going to the ACS meeting in San Francisco? If so, at last year's spring meeting, we held a social hour for the IONiC community (up to over 300 faculty members now!) and we enjoyed it so much we’re going to do it again, this time at the Thirsty Bear, a Spanish tapas/brew place. We have our own room, so just tell them you’re with IONiC at the front door. We’ll gather there after the session ends on Sunday about 5:15-5:30. It’ll be a great opportunity to get some food and build community in a more relaxed atmosphere before heading back in for the poster session. It’s located just a half-block from the Moscone Center, so getting there and back again should be no problem. The address is: 661 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 See you there!

CENTC Catalysis Summer School

Submitted by / VIPEr on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 20:24
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CENTC is hosting its second summer school on organometallic catalysis which I think will be of interest to the users of VIPEr. The 2010 CENTC Summer School, "New Perspectives in Catalysis" will be held July 19-22, 2010 on the University of Washington campus in Seattle and is targeted to advanced graduate students, postdocs and early career researchers as well as faculty at PUIs. In addition to the pedagogical objectives, another goal is to foster community among the diverse practitioners in the field. There is no fee and travel and accommodations will be covered for all participants. For more information please see the attached flyer or go to nsfcentc.org or contact Eve Perara at centcdeo@chem.washington.edu. Application deadline is Apr. 5, 2010!

Placement exams?

Submitted by Joanne Stewart / Hope College on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 15:17

I'm seeking information on two things:

1. Recent reviews on the efficacy of various placement exams for placing incoming college students at the right level in their college chemistry curriculum. I know there are several J Chem Ed articles about this, but I wondered if anyone had summarized that information somewhere.

2. More specific or anecdotal information on your experience with placement exams.

Thanks!

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One hour lanthanides overview

Submitted by Ana de Bettencourt-Dias / University of Nevada, Reno on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 14:51
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This is a set of 36 slides with an overview on the history, production, industrial applications, coordination and organometallic chemistry of the lanthanides.  This is a condensed version of a semester long course for graduate students.  It does not include any lanthanides spectroscopy.  Some of the content was obtained from Prof. Jean-Claude Bunzli's lectures on lanthanides and actinides.

First Day Review of Atomic Orbitals

Submitted by Maggie Geselbracht / Reed College on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 22:30
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This is an interactive small-group discussion activity I did on the first day of sophomore-level inorganic chemistry to get students to interact with each other and brainstorm to collectively review what they knew about atomic orbitals.  I also wanted to "set the stage" for non-lecture type activities in this class.  I adapted this in-class activity from one posted by Joanne Stewart (Hope College) with additional questions from a fundamental quiz posted by Barbara Reisner

Spring 2010 ACS Symposium on Undergraduates at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry

Submitted by Nancy Williams / Scripps College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College on Sun, 07/19/2009 - 11:40
In what will now be the Third Annual IONiC Symposium on Undergraduates at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry, we will again be helping to organize programming for undergraduates and those who do research with undergraduates in partnership with the INOR division of the American Chemical Society for the Spring 2010 meeting in San Francisco.

Henry Taube and Electron Transfer

Submitted by Brad Wile / Ohio Northern University on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 18:07
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When teaching reactions and mechanisms of inorganic complexes, I tend to get to the end of the chapter (out of breath) and find myself thinking "*$#&, I forgot about electron transfer". While I think it is important that students get an understanding of this in an upper level inorganic course, I simply don't have, or forgot to budget the time to really talk about it.

Inorganic Chemistry Spectroscopy Tutorial: Theoretical Principles and Applications

Submitted by Jason Cooke / Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 16:02
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We have developed an online tutorial that demonstrates the fundamental principles and applications of the various types of spectroscopy that students will encounter in the inorganic chemistry laboratory, namely infrared spectroscopy (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-vis).  The tutorial has been designed as a stand-alone interactive resource that can either introduce the fundamental aspects of spectroscopy from first principles or serve as a supplement for students who prefer to learn visually in an individual setti

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