Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Recent Progress in Green Undergraduate Organic Laboratory Design
3. Three Modules Incorporating Cost Analysis, Green Principles, and Metrics for a Sophomore Organic Chemistry Laboratory
4. A Greener Organic Chemistry Course Involving Student Input and Design
5. Synthesis and Characterization of Biodiesel from Used Cooking Oil: A Problem-Based Green Chemistry Laboratory Experiment
6. Microwave-Assisted Aspirin Synthesis from Over-the-Counter Pain Creams Using Naturally Acidic Catalysts: A Green Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment
7. One-Pot Synthesis of Chalcone Epoxides via Claisen Schmidt Condensation and Epoxidation
8. Synthesis and Study of Sustainable Polymers in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory: An Inquiry-Based Experiment Exploring the Effects of Size and Composition on the Properties of Renewable Block Polymers
9. Toxic to the Heart: Target Organ Toxicity and NMR Spectroscopy of NSAIDs
Editors' Biographies
Indexes

About the Author

Jodie T. Fahey earned her Ph.D. from the University of Northern Colorado in Chemical Education where she studied factors affecting student success in organic chemistry. While there she also earned her M.S. in Organic Chemistry working with the National Renewable Energy Lab on organic-based photovoltaics. She began her career at Manhattan College for a year before beginning at Mount Saint Mary green conversion of experiments.

Lynn E. Maelia earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from SUNY Stony Brook in the field of inorganic synthesis and characterization. After a post-doc at Brookhaven National Laboratory, she worked as an analytical chemist for several years before beginning her academic career. Lynn has chaired the Division of Natural Science at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY (2004-2011) and the Mid-Hudson section of the American Chemical Society (2000 & 2013).