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Evaluations/Assignment Forms: Faculty interview, Seminar evaluation, Poster evaluation
Tentative Schedule (change is guaranteed...)
| Date: |
Topic |
| Aug 27 |
Intro, etc |
| Aug 31 |
Searching the Scientific Literature |
| Sep 3 |
No class - Labor
Day |
| Sep 7 |
MSUM Chem Faculty Research - slides, Interview Form |
| Sep 10 |
Laboratory Notebooks (slides) |
| Sep 14 |
Literature search assignment |
| Sep 17 |
How research is presented (slides) |
| Sep 21 |
Safety (slides) |
| Sep 24 |
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| Sep 28 |
Fire extinguisher training |
| Oct 1 |
Giving a seminar (Suslick's "Seminar on Seminars" slides) |
| Oct 5 |
Article discussion (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja201511u) |
| Oct 8 |
With Knowledge Comes Responsibility: A Case for Green Chemistry (seminar) Douglas Rainie, South Dakota State University {Seminar evaluation form} |
| Oct 12 |
Nobel Prizes! |
| Oct 15 |
No class - Fall
Breather |
| Oct 19 |
Poster discussion |
| Oct 22 |
Oral article presentations "Lactone Radical Cyclizations and Cyclization Cascades Mediated by SmI2−H2O" {JL} http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja3047975 -Excellent article for looking at organic reaction mechanisms, chirality, and natural-products design "Metal−Organic Framework Materials with Ultrahigh Surface Areas: Is the Sky the Limit?" {CO} http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ja3055639 - Nice discussion of MOFs, mostly computational, good intro to the field |
| Oct 26 |
Oral article presentations "Price To Be Paid for Two-Metal Catalysis: Magnesium Ions That Accelerate Chemistry Unavoidably Limit Product Release from a Protein Kinase" {CB} http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja304419t - "Site-Isolated Redox Reactivity in a Trinuclear Iron Complex" {JL} http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ic301241s - |
| Oct 29 |
Oral article presentations "Titania and Silica Materials Derived from Chemically Dehydrated Porous Botanical Templates" {DA} http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/cm3016534 - |
| Nov 2 |
Mercury Contamination in the Western Great Lakes Region (seminar) Kris Rolfhus, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse {Seminar evaluation form} |
| Nov 5 |
"Ladderphanes: A New Type of Duplex Polymers" {DC} http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ar300170b - Instrumentation - Spectroscopy, NMR, IR, UV-Vis |
| Nov 9 |
Library Field Trip - What resources are available, How to take advantage of the library |
| Nov 12 |
Instrumentation - Chromatography, GC, GC-MS, LC |
| Nov 16 |
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| Nov 19 |
5-minute
poster topic presentations - Who is your scientist? What was his/her
discovery/field? How is that discovery/field applied in modern
chemistry? |
| Nov 23 |
No class - Fall
Break |
| Nov 26 |
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| Nov 30 |
In-class poster review/practice - Poster guidelines |
| Dec 3 |
In-class poster review/practice (final drafts due by 5pm Dec. 5th) |
| Dec 7 |
Poster Session {CB} - Hermann Emil Fischer {DA} - Dmitri Mendeleev {JeL} - August Kekule {CO} - {JoL} - |
| Dec 10 |
Wrap up, evals, etc |
| Dec 13 |
Final Exam - 12:00pm |
