Traditionally, our laboratory curricula has maintained has maintained laboratories that have each focused individually on one of the five sub-disciplines of chemistry. Recently we as a department have made a push to better integrate laboratory concepts across the traditional five sub-disciplines. In the physical chemistry laboratory we have begun including exercises that include concepts/ideas from inorganic and organic chemistry. In some cases, these exercises have 2 components, one performed in physical chemistry and the other performed in a different laboratory. The exercises include computional and spectroscopic work examining dyes synthesized in an advanced synthetic course, computational work on a synthetic inorganic synthesis, and computational work on predicting organic synthesis products. This affords students the opportunity to make connections across discplines and reinforce chemical concepts from different perspectives and laboratory techniques.

Giving physical chemistry an interdisciplinary push

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