Comp Chem 04
(4/30/20, bes)
Greetings...welcome to your last (sad face) Pchem II lab.
- A reminder...comp chem activities will be included on the Exam 3.
My Friend Bob2
In today's lab activity i will be using some information provided by Bob Gotwals, a current chemistry faculty member at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). NCSSM is a residential "magnetic school" for junior and senior high school students. I first met Bob2 when i was a chemistry faculty member at NCSSM (2000-2002) and Bob2 worked at Shodor (I was told is an abbreviation for SHOrt and DORky). At that time, Bob2 was promoting computational chemistry to educators and was developing significant online "COMP CHEM" resources.
To start today's "lab" i ask you to watch the 24 min video as an overview of computational chemistry. This video will provide a general overview and provide for you a framework on where quantum mechanics works into the computation scene. Many of these slides/topics should be familiar to you...
Methods in Computational Chemistry, by Bob Gotwals
Phenolphthalein
You are all aware of the pH-dependent color change of a solution of phenolphthalein (no color to pink at ~pH 8). We can use WebMO to calculate the UV-Vis spectrum of this pH "indicator." You may see Bob2's rendition of this lab (exercise 3)...here, but i will define our calculation parameters below.
