Journal of Chemical Education
May 2015 Volume 92, Number 5
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 7
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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