Using Computational Methods to Teach Chemical Principles

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8412-3420-8
Verlag: American Chemical Society

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 258 mm, Gewicht: 846 g

Reihe: ACS Symposium Series

While computational chemistry methods are usually a research topic of their own, even in the undergraduate curriculum, many methods are becoming part of the mainstream and can be used to appropriately compute chemical parameters that are not easily measured in the undergraduate laboratory. These calculations can be used to help students explore and understand chemical principles and properties. Visualization and animation of structures and properties are also aids in
students' exploration of chemistry. This book will focus on the use of computational chemistry as a tool to teach chemical principles in the classroom and the laboratory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grushow, Alexander

Reeves, Melissa S.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Grushow received a B.A. in chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College and a Ph.D. from University of Minnesota. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Rider University and Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics. Since his days as an undergraduate, he has been fascinated by intermolecular forces and has published papers on molecules held together by hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, dative bonding and
ion-molecule interactions. He has worked as a Program Director for the National Science Foundation and has worked in chemistry examination development for both ETS and the ACS Examinations Institute. He has also been heavily involved in innovating the teaching of physical chemistry; starting as a member of the Physical
Chemistry Online Consortium (PCOL) and most recently as a coPI on two NSF grants to develop POGIL experiments in Physical Chemistry (POGIL-PCL).

Melissa S. Reeves received her B.S. in chemistry at University of Florida and her

Ph.D. in chemistry at Indiana University at Bloomington. She is an associate professor of chemistry at Tuskegee University, where she specializes in physical chemistry and computational chemistry. Her research interests have ranged from calculating transition states of small molecule reactions in solution to molecular dynamics of polymers. She was part of the Physical Chemistry Online (PCOL) group in the early 2000s, has worked on two American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Exam
Committees, and works as part of the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning Physical Chemistry Laboratory (POGIL-PCL) community.