by Weihua Wang and Prabin Rai
Original Research
The traditional laboratory of synthesis of banana oil via Fisher esterification was modified to provide a practical integration of green chemistry concepts and principles into undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory at Southern University and A&M College-Baton Rouge campus (SUBR). Besides the ...
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2024, 12(2), 45-48. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-12-2-1
Pub. Date: April 09, 2024
by Cao Cu Giac, Pham Ngoc Tuan and Le Thi Thu Hiep
Original Research
The chemistry program in university includes content on reaction mechanisms and IR and NMR spectroscopy. However, the laboratory conditions are limited, so students do not have access to experimental spectral data. Applying the CDIO teaching process, we designed a group activity for university ...
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2024, 12(1), 39-44. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-12-1-6
Pub. Date: March 19, 2024
by A. Habekost
Original Research
Ferricyanide and ferrocyanide are often used in undergraduate education to experimentally investigate the redox behaviour, the different thermodynamic stability and the formation of Prussian Blue. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) on colloids is intensively studied in chemistry, but the ...
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2024, 12(1), 30-38. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-12-1-5
Pub. Date: March 15, 2024
by Ayat Ahmed shukran and Lekaa Hussain Khadim
Original Research
Adsorption from aqueous solutions by employing Peel of pomegranates charcoal (PP) for folic acid as inexpensive and accessible adsorbent materials are explored in this research. The sorption behavior of (PP) toward folic acid was investigated using batch adsorption studies as a function of ...
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2024, 12(1), 19-29. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-12-1-4
Pub. Date: February 27, 2024
by Monsurat M. Lawal and Tugba G Kucukkal
Original Research
This paper presents an undergraduate computational chemistry lab experiment of the E2 elimination reaction of 2-bromopropane to form propene. Utilizing the Hartree-Fock (HF) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods within the computational frameworks of Avogadro and ORCA, the experiment offers a ...
World Journal of Chemical Education. 2024, 12(1), 13-18. DOI: 10.12691/wjce-12-1-3
Pub. Date: February 25, 2024