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	Molecule of the Week	Seeing is Believing

Topic	Course(s)	Content


Antifreeze	General	Properties and toxicity of ethylene glycol
Anoxia in Chesapeake	Chem 276, 482	Competition between thermodynamics and kinetics
H2 fuel	General	The chemistry behind the hydrogen economy
Butter v. margarine	Organic	Relating molecular structure to material properties and reactivity
NMR of wine	Organic	Analyzing wine for spoilage while still in the bottle
Supernova	General	Supernova (Hubble photographs) and density of matter
Vioxx_organic	Organic	Synthesis and behavior of COX 2 inhibitors
Vioxx_biochem	Biochemistry	Structure and mechanism of COX 2 action in vivo
Water toxicity	General	Osmosis and Hyphenate
Designer steroids	Organic/Analytical	Strategies behind making performance enhancing substances
Designer steroids 2	Organic	Making custom steroids from a common precursor, testosterone
Ocean Acidity	General	pH changes in the ocean and the acidification of water by CO2
Prodrugs	Organic	Rate of acyl transfers correlate to intermediate ring size
Thalidomide	Organic	History of regulation for an important pharmaceutical drug
Cement and Concrete	General	Physical and chemical changes associated with drying concrete