Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with Reaction Explorer to bring new capabilities to the online organic chemistry market.
Students can access Reaction Explorer through WileyPLUS, an online teaching and learning solution for organic chemistry. Reaction Explorer is projected to help students achieve a higher level of understanding of the intricacies of organic chemistry reactions, syntheses and mechanisms.
Reaction Explorer was initially developed at the University of California, Irvine, in the laboratory of Professor Pierre Baldi, and has been used there for over 3 years to teach undergraduate organic chemistry. It uses expert system technology to predict the results of arbitrary organic chemistry reactions. This unique ability allows students to explore the results of novel reactions, regardless of whether they were anticipated by the developers.
The Reaction Explorer system has two primary modules, focusing on the most challenging and important problem-solving skills students learn in organic chemistry. Synthesis Explorer allows students to interactively learn and work through multi-step retrosynthesis problems, while Mechanism Explorer challenges a student’s ability to propose and sketch reasonable organic reaction mechanisms.
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