WEB-BASED LEARNING TOOLS FOR ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

JENNIFER MUZYKA, CENTRE COLLEGE

2014 BCCE

TO LEARN, RETRIEVE

“To be most effective, retrieval must be repeated again and again, in spaced out sessions so that the recall, rather than becoming a mindless recitation, requires some cognitive effort.”

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

Make it Stick

REACTION ZOO

http://chemserv.centre.edu/muzyka/reactionzoo/

STARBURST LAYOUT

Missing product

Missing reagent

Synthesis, missing reagent

Synthesis, missing starting material

TRADITIONAL LAYOUT

Product missing

Reagent missing

Synthesis, reagent missing

Synthesis, starting missing

Synthesis, product missing

STUDENT-DRAWN ANSWERS

DATABASE & DETAILS

>600 molecules

~1200 reactions

PHP / MySQL

SMILES

JavaScript

SPECTRAL ZOO

http://chemserv.centre.edu/muzyka/spectralzoo/

DATABASE DETAILS

78 unknowns, all with IR and 1H NMR

Some also have 13C NMR

IR from NIST database (gas phase)

NMR mostly from Widener University

CHEMSERV

http://chemserv.centre.edu

IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS

JEOL Eclipse 300 FT-NMR

Nicolet Avatar 360 FTIR

JCAMP output

Shared directory

PHP

JavaScript

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Ian Kaster, database design

Luke Hatcher, PHP in ChemServ

Xavier Prat-Resina, SMILES

Bob Hanson, Jmol, Jsmol

Robert Lancashire, JSpecView

Peter Ertl, JSME

Centre College Faculty Development Committee