CG Teaching Material for the Electronic Laboratory Textbook - Esterification of Acetic Acid and Ethanol

Akira Ikuo, Yusuke Yoshinaga, Haruo Ogawa

2014

Abstract

CG animation of the esterification of acetic acid and ethyl alcohol was made based on quantum chemical calculations by use of MOPAC with PM5 Hamiltonian. The CG animation could simultaneously display realistic shapes and electrostatic potentials of the intermediates of the reactants on the way of the reaction profile besides the ball-and-stick model of the intermediates. A survey of five chemistry textbooks used in Japanese high school revealed that molecular models in chemistry were illustrated by popular molecular models such as ball-and-stick, space filling, and free-hand. There were only a few examples illustrated by the models with characteristics of molecules for chemical reaction mechanism. The CG animation could demonstrate these images of dynamical reaction mechanism for the esterification and can be loaded with tablet PC and smart phone. We are trying to produce an electronic laboratory textbook of the esterification in which the CG teaching material is combined with chemical experiments of student’s laboratory.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ikuo A., Yoshinaga Y. and Ogawa H. (2014). CG Teaching Material for the Electronic Laboratory Textbook - Esterification of Acetic Acid and Ethanol . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 3: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-022-2, pages 226-231. DOI: 10.5220/0004961702260231

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Akira Ikuo and Yusuke Yoshinaga and Haruo Ogawa},
title={CG Teaching Material for the Electronic Laboratory Textbook - Esterification of Acetic Acid and Ethanol},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 3: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={226-231},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004961702260231},
isbn={978-989-758-022-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 3: CSEDU,
TI - CG Teaching Material for the Electronic Laboratory Textbook - Esterification of Acetic Acid and Ethanol
SN - 978-989-758-022-2
AU - Ikuo A.
AU - Yoshinaga Y.
AU - Ogawa H.
PY - 2014
SP - 226
EP - 231
DO - 10.5220/0004961702260231