Casey Tonnies - Distinction Presentation

Synthesis and coordination chemistry of N, N'-disubstituted malonamide derivatives as a multi-step reaction for undergraduate labs
Chemistry research commonly involves multiple areas of chemistry; however, lab courses taught in universities traditionally focus on presenting the techniques for one area of chemistry at a time. Creating new lab sequences that use common equipment and safe chemicals would give universities a greater range of interdisciplinary labs for undergraduates to complete. This project focuses on creating a series of malonamide derivatives with various substitutions. Different copper solutions were used for coordination and the effect was analyzed by UV-Vis spectroscopy
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