Development of experimental designs for organic synthetic reactions

Good experimental designs require hours of discussion and planning prior to the development of the first designed experiment. A structured template was developed at the Corpus Christi Technical Center, to help scientists and engineers accomplish the goal of obtaining a good experimental design. The template consists of six parts of the process required for developing an experimental design. These include defining the problem, determining responses and factors, developing a design, analyzing results, and final interpretation and implementation of the conclusions. A computerized form was developed to enable this process and is attached in Appendix A.