Compared with students receiving tutorial assistance from teaching assistants and with those with no tutorial assistance, students using CAI programs achieved higher test scores, particularly in the areas of nomenclature, organic reactions, and organic syntheses. (AL)

Describes the purpose and use of a card game which presents the essential groundwork of organic chemistry in a teaching aid form for use by the individual or by groups of sixth-form or first year university students. (Author/PR)

Describes the use of the game cards designed to help students master a large number of seemingly diverse yet fundamental reactions of classical organic chemistry. Claims that cards have stimulated students to learn organic reactions more willingly and more independently. (Author/PR)

Explains the reason that chemistry of carbon using principles of bonding, thermodynamics, and kinetics is considered a better introduction to organic chemistry than conventional use of interconversions. (DS)

Provides a general overview of fluoro-organic biochemistry and illuminates areas where further study is desirable. (BB)

Describes a method to compare diffusion rates of selected amines to that of HCl. Provides an opportunity to introduce simple organic compounds early in the general chemistry curriculum and can be used to test Graham's Law for several different molar masses. (JRH)

Examined is the development of resistance and secondary pest outbreaks and disease vectors. Two examples are considered in depth. A list of 42 references is included. (CW)

Outlines the object-process approach to designing and analyzing studyware in organic chemistry. Object-process diagrams are used to visualize the relationships between objects and processes within a system. (Author/MKR)

Examines how students completing a two-semester organic sequence understand, explain, and apply hydrogen bonding to determine the physical attributes of molecules. Suggests that some students completing what is typically their second year of college-level chemistry still possess misconceptions about hydrogen bonds. (Contains 21 references.) (ASK)

The Diels-Alder reaction is used as an example for showing the integration of computational and preparative techniques, which help in demonstrating the physical organic concepts in synthetic organic chemistry. These experiments show that the students should not accept the computational results without questioning them and in many Diels-Alder…

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded in December 2003 to chemist Paul C. Lauterbur and physicist Peter Mansfield for the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a long overdue recognition of the huge impact MRI has had in medical diagnostics and research is mentioned. MRI was derived, and remains an extension of nuclear magnetic resonance…

Experiments are conducted for spectroscopic analysis of the allyl esters of some aromatic carboxylic acids. It is understood that these experiments allow the students to monitor the effect of hydrogen bonding on the IR stretching frequencies for the hydroxyl and carbonyl groups and also provide them with an excellent opportunity to examine the…