Resumen de Exploration of Thermochromic Materials Using Experimental and Theoretical Infrared and UV-Visible Spectroscopy
Kelsey Costello, Kevin Thinh Doan, Kari Lynn Organtini, John Wilson, Morgan Boyer, Greglynn Gibbs, Lorena Tribe
This laboratory was developed by undergraduate students in collaboration with the course instructor as part of a peer-developed and peer-led lab curriculum in a general chemistry course. The goal was to explore the hypothesis that crystal violet lactone was responsible for the thermochromic properties of a sipping straw using a FT-IR for experimental determinations of vibrational frequencies, UV-vis to quantify the color change, and the software packages Spartan and Gaussian 09 for theoretical calculations.
