Visualizing Molecular Chirality in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Using Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1096-1099

  Popova, Maia ^a   Bretz, Stacey Lowery ^a   Hartley, C Scott ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality Optical Activity; Enantiomers; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; Inquiry Based Discovery Learning; Laboratory Instruction; Materials Science; Organic Chemistry; Second Year Undergraduate; Stereochemistry; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974779203     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00704     Document Type: Article

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