Teaching three-dimensional structural chemistry using crystal structure databases. 1. An interactive web-accessible teaching subset of the Cambridge Structural Database

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 809-812

  Battle, Gary M ^a   Allen, Frank H ^a   Ferrence, Gregory M ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoinformatics; CLIC; Conformational Analysis; Group Theory Symmetry; Internet web based learning; Molecular Properties Structure; Noncovalent Interactions; Second year undergraduate; Stereochemistry; Upper division undergraduate; VSEPR Theory; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955909608     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100256k     Document Type: Article

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