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Supramolecular Chemistry: A Capstone Course, Adam Urbach, Christopher Pursell, John Spence
Supramolecular Chemistry: A Capstone Course, Adam Urbach, Christopher Pursell, John Spence
Adam R Urbach
A fourth-year capstone course offers students an opportunity to integrate topics covered in the core disciplinary courses, to learn an advanced interdisciplinary topic, and to approach unfamiliar problems and literature. This article describes a fourth-year capstone course designed to incorporate components of faculty lectures, student seminars, and original, hands-on research projects in order to cover the topic of supramolecular chemistry in one semester with unusual depth. This approach should be applicable to other advanced topics in chemistry.
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy In The Undergraduate Curriculum, Adam Urbach
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy In The Undergraduate Curriculum, Adam Urbach
Adam R Urbach
Circular dichroism spectropolarimetry (CD) is a method of optical spectroscopy that seems in most practical ways like UV−visible spectroscopy. The main difference between the two methods is that CD, instead of measuring the absorbance of light as a function of wavelength, measures the difference in absorbance of left versus right circularly polarized light as a function of wavelength. A CD spectrum is an observation of the structure of a chiral compound; it often serves as a “fingerprint” of the structure of biological molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. For this reason, CD has been broadly applied in biochemistry and …