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Chemical Education: Software Abstract for Special Issue Number 11: Proton NMR Basics Carolyn Sweeney Judd Houston Community College System Houston. TX 77270-7849 Joel D. Morrisetk, Mohan V. Chari, and Jeffrey L. Browning Baylor College of Medicine Houston TX 77030 Proton NMR Basics is a multimedia tutor designed to shorten the time for student mastery of NMR spectral interpretation. On a CD-ROM that can be used by both IBMcompatible and Macintosh computers, students can exlore the theory, the instrument, and the spectral analysis of crm;i:nn pre?erlnc n in; xner sect ons 5 aoo eo'o a *esearcip m e n hVR spac'rojcop, s .sea to determine the structure of a biologically Important molecuie
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Proton NMR Basics is a remarkable achievement by the faculty and technical support staff of the Houston Community College System. I t was made possible only by a close collaboration of teachers and scientists with computer programmers and graphic artists. It represents a n excellent use of the resources of a two-year community college to meet the needs of their chemistry students. Proton NMR Basics was soecificallv oroduced with the needs of two-year college stLdents i n x i n d . This CD is an appropriate introduction to NMR S~ectroscopvfor anv or.. . ganic chemistry student, but is e~pecially';aluahl~for those students a t two-year colleges (and smaller four-year colleges) that are not able to offer students hands-on experience with a n NMR spectrometer. Students will need some knowledge of organic chemistry-nomenclature, structures and functional groups-to receive maximum benefit from the program. The program can be used by instructors in a lecture hall with a large screen monitor or LED projector and a sound system. Instructors could use this presentation to supplement or even to replace a lecture on NMR. a s i t contains the basic information normally presented in a n introductorv " organic cbemistrv course. It could also be used bv students in a computer Yab, where they could explore th"e material a t their own pace. Hardware Requirements
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tian; . A double speed or faster CD-ROM drive with associated driver software; Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later. Apple Computer's QuickTime software required for both platforms is included on the CD. Acknowledgment The authors acknowledge their multimedia development team: S. Svdnev " " Elliott. develooment coordinator:. Aloana Gupta Arora, programmer; Sophie Diaz-Fonseca, graphics artist: Anabelle S. Parker. instructional desiener: Don W. white, audiolvideo editor;'and Todd W. ~ornsymediacoordinator. Support was through a grant from the Houston Community College System Ofice of Instructional Computing, headed by William H. Pritchard. The staff of JCE: Software offered valuable input into the final project.
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Citations 1. NMR rpectm mwtesy of Paul E Schatz. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2. For example: SpoctraDcck and The Schetr Index liy Paul F Schsfr. Falcon SoRwnre Ine.; Proton Nuclear Mametic Resonance Spectrum Simulator by Kcrsey A. Black. J.C h " Educ.: S"liu."rr. 1990.11C. 111.
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