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This undergraduate laboratory experiment challenges students to use their combined knowledge of organic reaction mechanisms and spectroscopic analysis to determine the product of a reaction that has several possible outcomes. The result is that students gain the “real-life” experience, commonly encountered by most research chemists, of characterizing and identifying an unknown organic substance.
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Breton, G.W. Investigating a Reaction of N-Methyltriazolinedione. Chem. Educator 4, 134–136 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00897990316a
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