Virtual ChemLab, Organic Chemistry, Student Lab Manual / Workbook and Cd Combo Package v 2.2

Woodfield, Brian F.; Andrus, Merritt B.

ISBN 10: 0130675261 ISBN 13: 9780130675262

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For courses or labs in organic chemistry including those with a qualitative organic analysis component.

This software offers an easy-to-use simulation of an organic chemistry lab and can be used for pre- or post-lab activities, to supplement wet labs, or to replace wet labs if time or resources are an issue. In the Virtual ChemLab, students are put into a virtual environment where they are free to make choices and decisions that they would confront in a wet lab and, in turn, experience the consequences. The program is available both in single-user and networked versions. Students can synthesize products; work up reaction mixtures and perform extractions; use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infra-red (IR) spectroscopy, and thin-layer chromotography (TLC) as analytical tools; purify products by distillation or recrystallization; study 17 named reactions; and perform qualitative analysis experiments on unknowns. Over one million outcomes are possible for the synthesis experiments, over 1400 digitized spectra are included, and over 300 unknowns (11 classes) are available experimental combinations are possible. Students record their observations in a lab notebook. There is a classroom management side of the network version that allows instructors to assign unknowns, review lab notebooks, and view students' automatically graded results.

Note: Sample the student version only―Contact Eliana Ortiz for adopters of the network version.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Improve Your Understanding of Chemical Concepts in Organic Synthesis and Qualitative Analysis

The Organic Synthesis and Qualitative Analysis Virtual ChemLab is an easy-to-use simulation of an organic chemistry laboratory. It can be used to replace or supplement a wet lab, or for pre-laboratory or post-laboratory activities. You can synthesize products; work up reaction mixtures and perform extractions; use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infra-red (IR) spectroscopy, and thin-layer chromotography (TLC) as analytical tools; purify products by distillation or recrystallization; study 17 named reactions; and perform qualitative analysis experiments on unknowns. The results presented after each procedural step are based on real data captured in the laboratory as pictures or video.

Features

• The powerful simulation environment provides over one million possible combinations of experiments that students can perform. This gives you essentially unlimited potential for practice and allows students to explore and think rather than just follow a set of prescriptive instructions.
• The easy-to-use interface looks like a 3D laboratory. With this simplified interface and immediate results, the focus is on teaching the important concepts and cognitive skills, not training students on the techniques.
• All provided results are from real data recorded in the laboratory, including 700 NMR spectra and 700 IR spectra. See the same results on the computer that you would in the lab.
• A built-in laboratory notebook encourages careful note-keeping and makes it easy to record data from each experiment.
• Built-in help screens, including one that shows students what is in their reaction vessel as they add chemicals and perform operations, guide students to conclusions and help them follow their experiments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130675261
• ISBN 13: 9780130675262
• Binding: CD-ROM
• Language: English