This resource is for academics who want to utilize DOZN™ 2.0 in classroom and research settings. It contains an overview of DOZN™ 2.0, specific rules for utilizing the tool in academic settings, gives a template worksheet for students and select reactions with DOZN™ 2.0 scoring to serve as introductory examples.
This Guide has been developed as a partnership between Beyond Benign, My Green Lab, and MilliporeSigma, three organizations committed to promoting the adoption of Green Chemistry into chemistry curricula in higher education. We have collaborated to create this Guide with the hope that Green Chemistry will be adopted into undergraduate organic chemistry laboratories and beyond.
As such this Guide contains more than experimental procedures, the Green Chemistry: Principles and Lab Practices section can serve as both a primer for utilizing this Guide and as a resource bank for practicing Green Chemistry in any laboratory setting to reduce human health and environmental impacts of practicing chemistry. Learn more about the Guide in the overview document or to download the full resource Guide or a specific experiment visit:
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Oxidation reactions are commonly performed in the organic chemistry laboratory course. The reactions are typically performed using chromium compounds, such as pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC), one of the most common oxidizing reagents. Chromium compounds are known to be carcinogenic and many also have reproductive and developmental hazards associated with them. A greener method for performing this reaction is described that uses a molybdenum catalyst.
A greener approach to a traditional Grignard Reaction has been implemented by Dr. Abby O’Connor at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The greener approach reduces the use of undesirable ethers, and avoids the use of hexanes, and magnesium.
Chemistry Concepts: catalysis, oxidation reaction
Developed by Irv Levy (Gordon College)
Chemistry Concepts: organic synthesis, aldol condensation
Developed by Irv Levy (Gordon College)
Chemistry Concepts: acid-hydrolysis, base-hydrolysis, catalysis, microwave energy, titration, microbiology
Developed by Rich Gurney (Simmons College)
Kits are available from Flinn Scientific.
Chemistry Concepts: polymers, photoresists, photodimerization
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