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Chemistry Story

What happens when we “let there be light”?

09/30/2008

Prof. Frantz Andersen and his students monitor a reaction in the organic lab.  In this experiment, the students use light to initiate the reaction between elemental bromine and 2,3-dimethylbutane as shown below.  The students will determine the product of the reaction using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. 

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