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Journal of Chemical Education

May 2015 Volume 92, Number 5

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Number of articles: 7

  1. Student Response to a Partial Inversion of an Organic Chemistry Course for Non-Chemistry Majors

    Kathleen S. Rein & David T. Brookes

    We report the student response to a two-year transformation of a one-semester organic chemistry course for nonchemistry majors. The transformed course adopted a peer led team learning approach and ... More

    pp. 797-802

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  2. Using Free Computational Resources to Illustrate the Drug Design Process in an Undergraduate Medicinal Chemistry Course

    Ricardo P. Rodrigues, Saulo F. Andrade, Susimaire P. Mantoani, Vera L. Eifler-Lima, Vinicius B. Silva & Daniel F. Kawano

    Advances in, and dissemination of, computer technologies in the field of drug research now enable the use of molecular modeling tools to teach important concepts of drug design to chemistry and... More

    pp. 827-835

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  3. A Prospective Method to Guide Small Molecule Drug Design

    Alan T. Johnson

    At present, small molecule drug design follows a retrospective path when considering what analogs are to be made around a current hit or lead molecule with the focus often on identifying a compound... More

    pp. 836-842

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  4. A Comprehensive Application to Assist in Acid-Base Titration Self-Learning: An Approach for High School and Undergraduate Students

    David Gonza´lez-Go´mez, Diego Airado Rodríguez, Florentina Can~ada-Can~ada & Jin Su Jeong

    Currently, there are a number of educational applications that allow students to reinforce theoretical or numerical concepts through an interactive way. More precisely, in the field of the... More

    pp. 855-863

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  5. Fighting Tuberculosis in an Undergraduate Laboratory: Synthesizing, Evaluating and Analyzing Inhibitors

    David Daniels, Charlotte Berkes, Arjan Nekoie & Jimmy Franco

    A drug discovery project has been successfully implemented in a first-year general, organic, and biochemistry (GOB) health science course and second-year organic undergraduate chemistry course.... More

    pp. 928-931

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  6. An Integrated Approach to Thermal Analysis of Pharmaceutical Solids

    Shelley R. Rabel Riley

    A three-tiered experiment for undergraduate Instrumental Analysis students is presented in which students characterize the solid-state thermal behavior of an active pharmaceutical ingredient ... More

    pp. 932-935

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  7. The Simulation of an Oxidation-Reduction Titration Curve with Computer Algebra

    Richard V. Whiteley

    Although the simulation of an oxidation/reduction titration curve is an important exercise in an undergraduate course in quantitative analysis, that exercise is frequently simplified to accommodate... More

    pp. 950-953

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