Inorganic chemistry laboratory course

The Use of Writing-Intensive Learning as a Communication and Learning Tool in an Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Course... 

To meet the new undergraduate curriculum requirements at SFU, the Department of Chemistry recently altered a required second-year inorganic chemistry laboratory course to provide specific instruction in scientific writing. The weekly 4-h laboratory sessions remain, in the traditional way, the time for students to receive hands on experience with basic inorganic chemistry concepts and laboratory techniques. With the addition of weekly 1-h tutorials, detailed instruction could focus on the various aspects of writing typically associated with a laboratory science. Attendance at both the laboratory and tutorial sessions is mandatory. 

The prerequisites for the course include two years of chemistry, including organic, analytical, and an introductory inorganic chemistry course, one year of calculus-based physics, three terms of calculus, and introduction to differential equations usually taken concurrently. Most students take the computational laboratory concurrent with the physical chemistry lecture course covering... 

Prior to the revisions that occurred in 2001 the requirements for an ACS-certified degree in chemistry at Creighton University were very standard, one year each of general chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and analytical chemistry (separated into quantitative and instrumental analysis), and one semester of advanced inorganic chemistry. Each of these courses had a laboratory specifically associated with it. In addition, we required an advanced... 

When I started writing this book, it was exactly 50 years ago that I became acquainted with organo-transition metal chemistry. As an undergraduate at the University of Jena in the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( East Germany ), I attended a course in preparative inorganic chemistry and a junior colleague of Professor Franz Hein took care of the course. It was at this time, that Professor Ernst Otto Fischer visited Hein s laboratory to inform him that,... 

F7. R. J. Angelici, Synthesis and Technique in Inorganic Chemistry. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1969. Designed for undergraduate laboratory courses in inorganic chemistry. 

This introductory chapter describes the simple ideas of atoms and molecules, types of chemical formula and their molecular weight for students who have not studied chemistry before. Chemical equations and balanced chemical equations are introduced through the reactions used in an introductory practical laboratory course. The concepts of molarity and molar solutions are introduced through solving volumetric problems, to enable the student to start a laboratory course in practical Inorganic Chemistry. 

A set of questions is appended to each experiment. Some of these questions will be answered by the experiment itself that is, they concern reactions or phenomena that occur in the experiment but are not described explicitly in the directions. Many of the questions involve periodic system relationships, and it is to help answer such questions that Chapters IV and V of the preliminary text are included. There is more system, logic, and correlation to inorganic chemistry than is generally appreciated, and any course in descriptive inorganic chemistry, whether a laboratory course or not, should emphasize this system. It is also important to understand the physical principles used in separating a pure product or in guiding a reaction to obtain the desired substance for this reason Chapters III, VI and VII are included, and a number of the questions on the various experiments concern these principles. Other questions relate to industrial applications. 

It must be emphasized that the study of classical qualitative inorganic analysis is invaluable for any intending chemist, as this is where he/she first comes across and handles materials which are discussed in the traditional courses of inorganic chemistry. After a few weeks spent in the qualitative analytical laboratory the young chemists become famiUar with solids, liquids, gases, acids, bases, salts - the bread and butter of every chemist s knowledge and skills. 

In more recent activities, the green star is being used in a broader study of the synthesis experiments used in the 1st and 2nd years organic and inorganic laboratories of chemistry BSc courses of Portuguese universities. This study showed that the metric is adequate to evaluate separately the three stages of the synthesis process, the reaction step (with ten corner stars), and the two post-reaction steps, isolation and purification (six corner stars). This assessment of the micro-greenness of the steps shows that the post-reaction... 

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