The presentation will focus on innovative strategies to educate students about environmental remediation strategies. Examples will include methods to produce long chain ligands – not polymers, but hydrocarbon-based chains – which are discrete molecules that have the ability to attach to metal ions in aqueous solutions. The production of these molecules is straightforward, and has been the focus of a joint high school – undergraduate college student project in the recent past.  While it is not difficult to produce metal-ligand complexes from these ligands; the chemistry used to teach students about fundamental concepts that connect these syntheses procedures with practical problems for the cleaning of polluted water are significant in the incorporation of sustainability into the chemistry curriculum.

Innovative approaches to educate students environmental remediation strategies

2019 Spring National Meeting

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