Exploring organic mechanistic puzzles with molecular modeling

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1136-1139

  Horowitz, Gail ^a   Schwartz, Gary ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION; MECHANISTIC PUZZLES; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY MOLECULAR MODELING; REACTION COORDINATE ENERGY DIAGRAMS; REACTION SELECTIVITIES;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 3242879469     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed081p1136     Document Type: Article

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