In the spirit of many instructors' longstanding interest in making teaching labs less �cookbook-like� and more research-driven, we recently restructured our second-semester sophomore organic chemistry lab to include a synthesis project that was chosen, designed, and carried out by students. Students were given the incentive of co-authorship on any publications resulting from their work. This led to progress toward the total syntheses of JBIR-94 and JBIR-125, new anticancer compounds with potencies comparable to the active constituent of Vitamin E.

Embedding a student-designed research experience into an undergraduate organic chemistry lab

246th National Meeting (2013)

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