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ERIC Number: EJ357283
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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The Reactivity Selectivity Principle: Should It Ever Be Used?
Buncel, Erwin; Wilson, Harold
Journal of Chemical Education, v64 n6 p475-80 Jun 1987
Questions the use of the Reactivity Selectivity Principle (RSP) by teachers and authors of texts in discussing organic reaction mechanisms. Provides some applications and failures of the use of the RSP, reviews some quantitative aspects of the RSP, and discusses some of the rationalization of the RSP failures. (TW)
Descriptors: Chemical Analysis, Chemical Reactions, College Science, Higher Education, Molecular Structure, Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific and Technical Information, Structural Analysis (Science), Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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