Undergraduate laboratory experiment to determine absolute configuration using thin-layer chromatography

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 716-721

  Wagner, Alexander J ^a   Miller, Shawn M ^a   Nguyen, Steven ^a   Lee, Ga Young ^a   Rychnovsky, Scott D ^a   Link, Renée D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Enantiomers; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; Kinetics; Laboratory Instruction; Organic Chemistry; Problem Solving Decision Making; Second Year Undergraduate; Stereochemistry; Thin Layer Chromatography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900532076     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed4004996     Document Type: Article

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