From source to sink: Mechanistic reasoning using the electron-pushing formalism

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1282-1289

  Bhattacharyya, Gautam ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical Education Research; Graduate Education Research; Mechanisms of Reactions; Organic Chemistry; Second Year Undergraduate; Upper Division Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885405022     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed300765k     Document Type: Article

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