Isolation of cholesterol from an egg yolk

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1580-1581

  Taber, Douglass F ^a   Li, Rui ^a   Anson, Cory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohols; Aldehydes Ketones; Chromatography; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; Laboratory Instruction; Natural Products; Organic Chemistry; Oxidation Reduction; Second Year Undergraduate; Steroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053988335     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed101188q     Document Type: Article

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