Problem-Based Inquiry on World Water Problems in Large Undergraduate Classes
摘要:
This paper reports on the design and implementation of a project-based course - World Water Problems - that was introduced within the framework of introductory undergraduate geography education. The aims of the course were twofold: (1) to cultivate in students a world geographic perspective on water problems; and (2) to conduct an original research project on the search for detailed appraisals, or ex-post evaluations, of completed water projects and programs. The project involved problem-based inquiry and learning through several interrelated tasks including: hypothesis testing, systematic electronic library and database searching, corresponding with water resources experts; and synthesizing of results. Evaluation of the project, and the course more generally, was achieved through a questionnaire administered to the students and a focused in-class discussion. Overall, the students' comments about the course project demonstrate learning in the form of greater knowledge of world geographic regions and water sec tors as well as enhancement of database search skills and critical thinking.
Unexpected Highly Efficient Ring-Opening of Aziridines or Epoxides with Iodine Promoted by Thiophenol
作者:Jie Wu、Xiaoyu Sun、Wei Sun、Shengqing Ye
DOI:10.1055/s-2006-950417
日期:2006.9
Ring-opening of aziridines or epoxides with iodine promoted by thiophenol afforded β-iodo amines or β-iodo alcohols in good to excellent yields under mild reaction conditions with extremely high efficiency.
o-Phenylenediamine as a New Catalyst in the Highly Regioselective Conversion of Epoxides to Halohydrins with Elemental Halogens – A Reinvestigation
作者:Miroslaw Soroka、Waldemar Goldeman
DOI:10.1007/s00706-005-0421-9
日期:2006.2
-phenylenediamine is not a catalyst in the ringopening reaction of epoxides by means of bromine or iodine. The o -phenylenediamine is just a reactant which reacts with iodine to give phenazine-2,3-diamine and hydrogen iodide, or with bromine to give a mixture of brominated and polymerized products as well as hydrogen bromide. The hydrogen halogenides are in fact the real epoxideringopening reactants.
与先前的报告相反, 邻 苯二胺不是通过溴或碘进行环氧化物开环反应的催化剂。所述 Ô 苯二胺仅仅是一个反应物,其与碘反应,得到吩嗪-2,3-二胺和碘化氢,或用溴,得到溴化和聚合产物的混合物,以及溴化氢。卤化氢实际上是真正的环氧化物开环反应物。
Iron(III) Trifluoroacetate as an Efficient Catalyst for Solvolytic and Nonsolvolytic Nucleophilic Ring Opening of Epoxides
作者:Nasser Iranpoor、Hadi Adibi
DOI:10.1246/bcsj.73.675
日期:2000.3
Iron(III) trifluoroacetate was used as an efficient and nonhygroscopic catalyst for the alcoholysis, hydrolysis, and acetolysis of epoxides. The addition of chloride, bromide, iodide, and nitrate ions to epoxides to produce the corresponding 2-halo and 2-nitratoalkanols and also the conversion of epoxides to acetonides and thiiranes were also performed efficiently in the presence of this catalyst.
Cleavage of epoxides into halohydrins with elemental iodine and bromine in the presence of 2,6-bis[2-(o-aminophenoxy)methyl]-4-bromo-1-methoxybenzene (BABMB) as catalyst
作者:Khodabakhsh Niknam、Taibeh Nasehi
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(02)01349-2
日期:2002.12
The ringopening of epoxides with elementaliodine and bromine in the presence of 2,6-bis[2-(o-aminophenoxy)methyl]-4-bromo-1-methoxybenzene as a new catalyst affords vicinal iodo alcohols and bromo alcohols in high yields. This new procedure occurs regioselectively under neutral and mild conditions in various aprotic solvents even when sensitive functional groups are present.