Resumen de iSpec: A Web-Based Activity for Spectroscopy Teaching
Students’ skills in structure elucidation of organic molecules are developed by training them to understand advanced spectroscopic measurements and elucidate structures of small organic molecules from mass spectrometry (MS) and infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), and 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic data. The present work puts a specific focus on developing student skills to ensure that the students (i) are aware of the resources involved in obtaining the spectral data and (ii) obtain the skills necessary to handle spectra which have not been processed by experts, to better reflect the use of spectroscopic techniques in their later work life. This is achieved through the web-based spectroscopy activity iSpec, in which the basic idea is that every action costs resources. The cost of a resource is given in the form of resource points (RPs), such that different experimental data can be “purchased” for a number of RPs.
