Chemistry 4414 Course Announcements
This page will be used to post general announcements for this course,
Chemistry 4414, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. Please check this page
frequently for announcements important to this course.
1 May 2001: I really enjoyed this semester. I appreciate all your
hard work and interest in learning inorganic chemistry. I hope to see
many of you at graduation and look forward to hearing about your
future successes. Karen J. Brewer
30 April 2001: Please note that according to your course syllabus all
lab reports must be submitted by 5 PM, Tuesday, May 1, 2001. The final course
requirement is then the poster session Wednesday, May 2, 2001. I will
invite faculty, students and staff to come from 1:30-3:00 PM. You should
plan to arrive at 1:00 PM to set up your poster and let me begin my
evaluations. I look forward to another outstanding poster session.
Please let me know if I can be of assistance. Karen J. Brewer
23 April 2001: The grading sheet for the final poster presentation
has been posted on the web. This is the sheet that will be used to grade the
poster presentation for your special project. If you have any questions
feel free to contact me. Karen J. Brewer
23 April 2001: The inorganic lab will be meeting, 1 PM, Monday, 30 April 2001, for
lab clean up. All students must attend. This is the time to make sure to
dispose of all chemical waste and get the lab ready for the poster session
Wednesday, 2 May 2001. See you all there. Karen J. Brewer
4 April 2001: By now you should have all started your special
project and completed your general experiments. Please remember
that reports for your general experiments should be turned in to
me within one week of completion of the experiment to avoid the
10% per week late penalty. I would be happy to assist you in any
way with this. Karen J. Brewer
19 March 2001: By now you should have picked a special project
and spoken with the faculty member directing your project. Please send
me an e-mail message to
kbrewer@chemserver.chem.vt.edu to let me know your selection.
Karen J. Brewer
12 March 2001: Oral presentations will be March 19 and 21 starting at 1:15 PM in the
inorganic laboratory. Please speak with Frank Cavadas concerning your assigned date.
The grading sheet I will use for your oral presentations is posted.
Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. Karen J. Brewer
12 March 2001: I hope you all had a great Spring Break. I sent you a message concerning
special projects. You will need to contact faculty listed for your special project of interest
this week to discuss the project with them so that you are able to select a project and
begin your literature work. As I mentioned in class I would like no more than one
student/group to work with an individual faculty member on their special project. Please let
me know if I can be of assistance. Karen J. Brewer
9 Feb. 2001: The
poster evaluation sheet that will be used in
grading your molecular modeling posters at our poster session, Wednesday, 14 Feb. 2001,
is now available on the web. On the day of the poster session you should arrive
at 1 PM to set up your poster. The poster session will begin
at 1:30 PM and run to approximately 3:00 PM. Please feel free
to invite students and faculty to the poster session. A general announcement will go
out to all chemistry faculty and students on Monday. Pizza and other refreshments
will be provided. You will have access to the lab
after the poster session until the end of the laboratory period. Karen J. Brewer
7 Feb. 2001: A new image converter/viewer program for editing your screen
captures from CAChe has been installed on the computers in the chemistry
department's computing lab for your use. This program is called Irfan View and a shortcut
is on the desktops of those computers. Karen J. Brewer
30 Jan. 2001: Starting with Wednesday's laboratory meeting, Jan. 31, 2001, we will begin
the class with a brief tutorial on characterizational tools you will be using
in the laboratory. These will last 20-30 minutes. Karen J. Brewer
20 Jan. 2001: Although the main NIH Guide to molecular modeling seems to be offline,
I have found that the section on computational methods at
http://cmm.info.nih.gov/modeling/guide_documents/tocs/computation_synopsis.html
seems to be functional. The buttons at the top of the page seem to not function
but the links within the page still give the valuable information on the
computational methods we use in this class. Hope this is useful.
Karen J. Brewer
18 Jan. 2001: I thank you for all the effort you put into digesting all the
information we give to you during the first week of the laboratory. I look
forward to starting experimental work next Monday. Please remember that you
will need to come to lab with a detailed experimental procedure for the
synthesis of your first compound and be prepared to discuss your methods
with myself or your GTA prior to beginning lab work. The NIH Guide to
molecular modeling is still not back online. I can recommend to you
the CAChe User Guide that is available online by starting the CAChe
program, selecting the Help drag down menu, selecting Online Books from
that menu and selecting CAChe User Guide from that menu. When the CAChe
User Guide opens you want to refer to Chapter 18, CAChe Computational Applications.
This describes briefly to you the computational methods used by CAChe and also
gives you references to some applicable literature. As always, let me know
if I can be of assistance. Karen J. Brewer
6 Jan. 2001: Welcome to Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. I look forward to working with
you this semester as we discover the world of synthetic inorganic
chemistry. You can look forward to learning lots of new synthetic techniques
this semester and seeing colorful and interesting inorganic
compounds. Inorganic Lab does meet the first day of classes for the full
time period. We have much to get accomplished on the first day.
Please drop by my office in Hahn 1105 whenever I can be
of assistance to you. See you in inorganic lab, Davidson 128!
Karen J. Brewer
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