Green reductive homocoupling of bromobenzene

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1148-1151

  Ballard, C Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Green chemistry; Hands on learning manipulatives; Inorganic chemistry; Inquiry based discovery learning; Laboratory instruction; Mass spectrometry; Organic chemistry; Organometallics; Second year undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960243932     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100945h     Document Type: Article

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