Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
Volume 96, Issue 9, Pages 2015-2020Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b01026
Keywords
Second-Year Undergraduate; Organic Chemistry; Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives; Free Radicals; Green Chemistry; Heterocycles; Laboratory Equipment/Apparatus; Photochemistry
Funding
- CONACyT [271165]
- PAPIME-UNAM [PE206115]
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