Easy Jmol web pages using the jmol export to web function: A tool for creating interactive web-based instructional resources and student projects with live 3-D images of molecules without writing computer code

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 652-653

  Gutow, Jonathan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

CLIC; Computer based learning; Crystals crystallography; First year undergraduate general; High school introductory chemistry; Interdisciplinary Multidisciplinary; Internet web based learning; Molecular modeling; Molecular properties structure; Multimedia based learning; Second year undergraduate; Stereochemistry; Upper division undergraduate; VSEPR theory; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955857639     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100283v     Document Type: Article

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