研究领域

Environmental & Green Chemistry

Our research interests focus on the development of organic chemistry laboratory experiments and curriculum materials for the college and high school levels that exemplify modern green chemistry methodology, advances in sustainable polymers, and guided-inquiry pedagogy. One example is the development of a new green oxidation procedure for the undergraduate organic teaching laboratories using Oxone® and a catalytic amount of sodium chloride for the conversion of borneol to camphor, both natural products.1 Also developed in our labs is a novel sustainable polymer experiment2 based on recent discoveries by the Hillmyer group in the U of MN Center for Sustainable Polymers.3 A triblock copolymer is synthesized from a naturally occurring lactone as the midblock and L-lactide as the end blocks. This all renewable thin, film polymer can be analyzed by 1H NMR analysis and has been successfully performed by thousands of students in our organic chemistry laboratory course.

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Lang, P. T.; Harned, A. M.; Wissinger, J. E. "Oxidation of Borneol to Camphor using Oxone®and Catalytic NaCl: A Green Experiment for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory J. Chem. Ed. 2011, 88, p. 652. Schneiderman, D. K.; Gilmer, C.; Wentzel, M. T.; Martello, M. T.; Kubo, T.; Wissinger, J. E. "Sustainable Polymers in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory: Synthesis and Characterization of a Renewable Polymer from δ-Decalactone and L-Lactide" J. Chem. Educ. 2014, 91, p. 131. Martello, M. T.; Burns, A.; Hillmyer, M. A. "Bulk ring-opening transesterification polymerization of the renewable δ-decalactone using an organocatalyst," ACS Macro Lett 2012, 1, 131.