Testing the Vibrational Theory of Olfaction: A Bio-organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment Using Hooke's Law and Chirality

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1352-1356

  Muthyala, Rajeev S ^a   Butani, Deepali ^a   Nelson, Michelle ^a   Tran, Kiet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioorganic Chemistry; Chirality Optical Activity; Inquiry Based Discovery Learning; IR Spectroscopy; Isotopes; Laboratory Instruction; Organic Chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029208680     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00991     Document Type: Article

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