A Six-Week Student-Led Project Designed to Provide Insight into Modern Photochemistry Research

Dominic Taylor; Leonardo Amicosante; Luise M. Luze; Lee Mcmahon; Martin R. S. McCoustra; Scott J. Dalgarno; Filipe Vilela

doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c01241

A Six-Week Student-Led Project Designed to Provide Insight into Modern Photochemistry Research

Dominic Taylor
, Leonardo Amicosante
, Luise M. Luze
, Lee Mcmahon
, Martin R. S. McCoustra
, Scott J. Dalgarno^*
, Filipe Vilela^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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An advanced chemistry laboratory project has been developed to introduce final year undergraduate students to organic photocatalyst design using benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (BTZ) photocatalysts, prepared via a single Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling from cheap starting materials, as the example. This project took on a research lab style structure, and over the course of 6 weeks students were tasked to (1) synthesize and study the photophysical properties of three BTZ-based photocatalysts; (2) apply the BTZ photocatalysts to a test photoredox reaction using cheap home-built LEDs, and (3) perform rudimentary computational calculations to rationalize key experimental results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1511-1517
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Chemical Education
Volume	102
Issue number	4
Early online date	6 Mar 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c01241
Publication status	Published - 8 Apr 2025

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Upper-Division Undergraduate
Organic Chemistry
Chemical Education Research
Hands-On Learning
Collaborative
Photochemistry
Synthesis
Computational

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