Symposium On Integrating Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling into the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum.

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Dallas, Texas

Tuesday, March 31, 1998


Integrating Computational Chemistry and Molec ular Modeling into the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum Organized by Harry E. Pence, Chemistry Department, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820, Phone: 607/436-3179, FAX: 607/436-2654 , E-MAIL: pencehe@oneonta.edu

Molecular modeling and computational chemistry have become standard tools for many industrial and synthetic chemists. The decrease in the price of computer hardware and software has made it increasingly possible to include this type of material in the undergraduate curriculum, but it is diff icult to integrate this into an already crowded curriculum. This symposium will consist of papers describing institutional efforts to explore ways to accomplish this through the addition of a single, new course, by spreading the material across a number of courses, or by some other arrangement that accomplishes the required integration.

This symposium is sponsored by the Committee on Computers in Chemical Education of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society.


Session A:

Presider: Harry E. Pence, Department of Chemistry, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820

8:50 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

8:55 NEW APPROACHES TO THE INTRODUCTION OF MOLECULAR MODELING TO BEGINNING ORGANIC STUDENTS. Kenn E. Harding and David E. Bergbreiter, Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843

9:20 HOW AND WHERE COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY TASKS HAVE BEEN INTEGRATED INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDERGR ADUATE PROGRAM. Brian P. Coppola, Department of Chemistry, 930 North University Avenue,The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055

9:45 STARTING WITH MOLECULES. Loretta L. Jones, Clark Fields, Lynn Geiger, M. Lynn James, Richard Schwenz, and Peter Thomas, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639

10:10 MOLECULAR MODELING IN TEACHING ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Janet E. Nelson and Warren J. Hehre, Wavefunction, Inc., 18401 Von Karman Ave., Suite 370, Irvine, CA 9 2614

10:35 Intermission

10:45 MOLUCAD: A NEW MOLECULAR MODELING PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Joseph W. LeFevre, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY, 13126

11:10 MOLECULAR MODELING AS A COMPLEMENT TO SYNTHETIC LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS. Laura E. Pence, Department of Chemistry, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117

11:35 MOLECULAR MODELING IN THE GENERAL CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM. Diana Malone, Clarke College, Dubuque, IA 5200 1

Session B:

Presider: Laura E. Pence, Department of Chemistry, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117, Phone: 860/768-4356, FAX: 860/768-5292 , E-MAIL: lpence@uhavax.hartford.edu

1:50 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

2:00 A HISTORY OF INCORPORATING COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR MODELING INTO THE CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM. Abby L. Parrill and James F. Harrison, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1322

2:25 INTEGRA TION OF MOLECULAR MODELING INTO THE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY CURRICULUM. Richard D. Cornelius and Carl T. Wigal, Department of Chemistry, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003

2:50 MINIMIZING THE BLACK BOX EFFECT: NORMAL MODE ANALYSIS AS AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Delphia F. Harris and Julio F. Caballero, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of St. Thomas, 3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006.

3:15 COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY:PREVIEW OF A NEW REQUIRED COURSE FOR CHEMISTRY MAJORS. M. Elizabeth Derrick, Department of Chemistry, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA 31698

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