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Teaching Green Chemistry with Epoxidized Soybean Oil

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
Volume 94, Issue 9, Pages 1314-1318

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00672

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Second-Year Undergraduate; Organic Chemistry; Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives; Green Chemistry; Synthesis

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The synthesis of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) provides students a vantage point on the application of green chemistry principles in a series of experiments. Qualitative tests review the reactions of alkenes, whereas spectroscopic analyses provide insight in monitoring functional group transformations.

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