Most senior-level undergraduate interpretive spectroscopy courses offer a curriculum taught from an organic-centric perspective that covers the three basic spectroscopic techniques of infrared (IR), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).  Our approach was to team teach an interpretive spectroscopy course using both an inorganic and organic perspective focusing more on NMR spectroscopic techniques as the central tool for structural analysis and identification.  Throughout the course inorganic as well as traditional organic examples were employed in all lecture, laboratory and assessment aspects of the course.  Through an integrated lecture and laboratory experience, which employed online (D2L�) examples of real-world analysis problems, students were introduced to increasingly more sophisticated spectroscopic techniques.  The course was structured such that technique-based laboratory experiences were interspersed with unknown identification-based problems.  A syllabus and course materials with laboratory experiments will be presented and made available at the poster session.

Development of an advanced NMR-centered undergraduate interpretive spectroscopy course

245th National Meeting (2013)

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