In an effort to broaden the selection of undergraduate chemistry research possibilities available to students studying at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI's), students can be asked to evaluate a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) used in an industrial or government regulatory lab.  Students are able to select from a wide variety of experiments which can be performed at their institution and can gain valuable experience in experimental set-up and design.  Considering that many SOP's are commonly updated and modified, students will have an opportunity to suggest their own modifications after they have successfully worked through the procedure for the first time.  In this work, data from the QuEChERS (Quick Easy Cheap Effective Rugged and Safe) method for the analysis of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) will be presented along with data from a modified version of the method.  The evaluation and subsequent modification of SOP's by undergraduates can serve as a research model at PUI's.

Evaluation and modification of standard operating procedures as a mechanism for introducing undergraduates to chemical research

245th National Meeting (2013)

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