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

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

DATABASE DETAILS 78 unknowns, all with IR and 1 H NMR Some also have 13 C NMR IR from NIST database (gas phase) NMR mostly from Widener University

CHEMSERV

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