Students' understanding of alkyl halide reactions in undergraduate organic chemistry

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 501-515

  Cruz Ramírez De Arellano, Daniel ^a   Towns, Marcy H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84908671659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3rp00089c     Document Type: Article

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