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Organic Chemistry Lab as a Research Experience
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A method was developed to introduce student creativity and ingenuity into a lab course and combines certain aspects of the multitasking approach, because it teaches time- and resource-management techniques, with giving students a real opportunity to design their own experiments. This approach was first attempted in an advanced organic course (spectroscopy) and later in our sophomore-level organic laboratory course. The results in both classes were very good indeed, with perhaps the most compelling results coming from the sophomore-level class.
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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