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First Name

David

Last Name

Dawson

Position

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Affiliation

Christian Brothers University

Teaching Interests

I teach Organic only (both lecture and lab.) I have no particular interests in any single part of Organic. I am not a fan of reteaching material from Freshman chemistry at the beginning of Organic. I like showing students how Organic pertains to real life (drugs, freons, distillation, etc.)

Research Interests

1) Making calyculone
2) Chemical Education (trying to figure out how to get Vernier polarimeters to be reproducible.
3) Trying to get making oxalate esters easier for students (and greener.)
4) Using Spartan to show how calculating HOMO, LUMO, electrostatic potential maps is useful.

City

Memphis

State (USA only)

TN

Zip Code (or country if not USA)

38104

History

Member for

5 years 3 months