Solvent-free synthesis and fluorescence of a thiol-reactive sensor for undergraduate organic laboratories

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1685-1687

  Patterson, Anastasia L ^a   May, Mary D ^a   Visser, Bryan J ^a   Kislukhin, Alexander A ^b   Vosburg, David A ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Green Chemistry; Hands on Learning; Laboratory Instruction; Microscale Lab; NMR Spectroscopy; Organic Chemistry; Organosulfur Compounds; Second Year Undergraduate; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890450447     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed400445j     Document Type: Article

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