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• Introduction and Project Assignments

• Searching the Chemical Literature

• Literature Assignment

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Introduction

Each team will be provided a project topic. The team will submit one project proposal based upon a brief literature review.

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Project Assignments

Team 1: Isolation and Purification of Alkaloids from Green Vegetables (Benjamin, Edna, John, and Hannah)

Team 2:Relative Rates of the Hydrolysis of 4-Nitro Phenolate Esters (Bincy, Megan, Stephen, and Richard)

Team 3: The Peroxidation of Lipids from Cooking Oils (Christopher, Penny, Jason, and David)

Team 4: Microbial Transformations in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Julie, Kunjan, Kristen, and Lauren)

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Searching the Chemical Literature 

1. Define your Topic (In this case it is given to you)

We will Use: Vitamin C in Juices

2. Review Tutorial "Information Literacy and You"

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Searching the Chemical LiteratureInformation Literacy and You

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Searching the Chemical Literature

3. Generate a KEY WORD list to use in a literature search

1. Vitamin C2. Ascorbic Acid

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4. Search databases using KEY WORD listJournal of Chemical Education Online ACS E Journals Data baseMEDLINE Data base

Searching the Chemical Literature

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Searching the Chemical Literature

JCHEM ED Site

User Name: Robert D Minard

Password: 16123

Click Here

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Searching the Chemical Literature

User Name: Robert D Minard

Password: 16123

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Searching the Chemical Literature

Click Here To Start Your Search

Searching the Chemical Literature

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Change to Contains

Change to Title

Change to Vitamin C

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Click HereTo Start YourSearch

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Searching the Chemical Literature

References in Blue areDownloadable

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Searching the Chemical Literature

5. Read KEY Articles

6. Examine References from KEY Articles

Find any additional references that are essential to your project

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Literature Assignment

•For your project topic find 5 reference journal articles pertaining to your project

•Only 2 of your articles may be JCHEM ED articles, the other 3 must be from other chemistry journals

•Write Reviews for these 5 articles

•The review of these articles should be no longer than 1 paragraph each

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Please attach a copy of this review form (available on the36B page) to each article

Your references and reviews will be due on WED FEB 7th in lab