The Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (VIPEr) hosts a wide range of resources for teaching inorganic chemistry at the undergraduate level.  However, comparatively few laboratory experiments are posted on VIPEr, in part due to the time and expense required to develop new experiments from the recent literature.  With funding from the Associated Colleges of the South, colleagues from seven schools convened for a two-day workshop to apply backward design principles to the development of two laboratory experiments: Antibacterial Reactivity of Ag(I) Cyanoximate Complexes and Iron Cross–Coupling Catalysis.  The process of funding, executing, and assessing the success of the workshop will be discussed as well as the initial data from the two experiments that have been piloted at our respective campuses in the fall of 2015.

Leveraging collegiate consortia to develop literature-based inorganic laboratory experiments

251st National Meeting (2016)

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