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Engaging Student Interest
What arose our interest in organic chemistry?- Professor’s passion- Transforming substances- ‘Clicking’ event
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Engaging Student Interest
The 8-step method to engage student’s interest:
1) Demonstrations
2) In the News
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Engaging Student Interest
3) Storytelling
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HMAV Bounty
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Cinchona
http://www.rain-tree.com/Plant-Images/quinine-pic.htm
- 1817 Pelletier & Caventou Isolation of Quinine C20H24N2O2
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Synthesis of Quinine
August Wilhelm von Hofmann William Henry Perkin
2 C10H13N + 1½ O2 → C20H24N2O2+ H2ONH3
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Mauveine
http://www.rsc.org/Chemsoc/Activities/Perkin/2006/minisite_perkin_mauveine_non_flash.html
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Mauveine
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Engaging Student Interest
4) Examples from the recent literature
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Engaging Student Interest
5) Timing of stories and demos
6) Use humor
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DecarboxylationDecarboxylation•Decarboxylation in the citric acid (Krebs) cycle
In a biology course: http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/Bio231/krebs.html
In CHEM 250:
HO2C CO2H
CO2H
OH
Enzymes
HO2C CO2H
CO2H
O
HO2C CO2H
O
Enzymes
- CO2
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Engaging Student Interest
5) Job shadowing / coop program
6) Guest speakers / industrial chemists
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Drugs in Afghanistan• Opium derived from the
poppy Papaverasomnifera is widelygrown and used inAfghanistan, and is oneof the worlds majorsupplier of the drug.The problem is thatfarmers will grow opiuminstead of food to feedtheir village.
Lt Brendan Clancy in Afghanistan 03 Feb06 – 06 Aug 06
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Milking the Latex• These scores on the
poricidal capsuleindicate that the latexhave been milked. Afield worker will comeby and score thepoppy, when he hasdone an entire row hewill return to collectthe latex with a large“spoon” lookingdevice and place it ina bag.
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Engaging Student Interest
7) Problem-solving approaches
8) Fun fact Friday
9) Make nomenclature interesting!
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Engaging Student Interest
- Labs should be a turn-on, not a turn-off
- Feedback halfway through the semesterand/or at the end
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Amines
PutrescineNH2
H2N
NH2H2N
Cadaverine
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/01/14.html
Rafflesia flower