Educational Publications Using Avogadro

A variety of activities and resources using Avogadro have been published in journals such as J. Chem. Ed.

Understanding Organic Chemistry Through Computation

There is a free LibreText Understanding Organic Chemistry Through Computation written by Nicholas Boaz and Orion Pearce.

This online textbook works to clarify challenging concepts in introductory organic chemistry by applying tools from computational chemistry to validate fundamental principles. […] Throughout this work, exercises are shown with step-by-step illustrated instructions and are designed to be completed using a standard desktop computer

Yes We Chem

The website “Yes We Chem” includes English and Italian tutorials and exercises for teaching chemistry with Avogadro.

The team of YesWeChem® is formed by teachers, authors of text- and coursebooks, chemists and enthusiasts of this wonderful science.

Computational Chemistry

• Computational Chemistry Activities with Avogadro and ORCA

• \(\ce{Ph2Te2}\): An Accessible Main Group Organometallic Target for Spectral Characterization and Modeling

• \(\ce{Cp2TiCl2}\): Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling and Catalysis

• A Computational Chemistry Course for Teachers: From Research Laboratories to High-School Chemistry Teaching

• Antioxidant Potential of Anthocyanidins: A Healthy Computational Activity for High School and Undergraduate Students

Spectra / Spectroscopy

• Computation of Chemical Shifts for Paramagnetic Molecules: A Laboratory Experiment for the Undergraduate Curriculum

• Computational Modeling of the Optical Rotation of Amino Acids: An ‘in Silico’ Experiment for Physical Chemistry

Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms

• Investigating first-year undergraduate chemistry students’ reasoning with reaction coordinate diagrams when choosing among particulate-level reaction mechanisms

Materials / Nano

• Think Outside the Lab: Modeling Graphene Quantum Dots in Pandemic Times

• Extended Hückel Calculations on Solids Using the Avogadro Molecular Editor and Visualizer

• A Computational Experiment on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

• The Computational Design of Two-Dimensional Materials

Cheminformatics

• Possibilities and Challenges of Using Educational Cheminformatics for STEM Education: A SWOT Analysis of a Molecular Visualization Engineering Project

• Basic Cheminformatics Course for First-Year Chemistry Students

3D Printing and VR

• Accessible 3D Printing: Multicolor Molecular Models from Consumer-Grade, Single Filament 3D Printers

• A Simplified Method for the 3D Printing of Molecular Models for Chemical Education

• Development and Evaluation of the H NMR MoleculAR Application

Remote Teaching

• Strategies, Practice and Lessons Learned from Remote Teaching of the General Chemistry Laboratory Course at Brown University