Resveratrol Photoisomerization: An Integrative Guided-Inquiry Experiment

A kinetic study of trans–cis resveratrol photoisomerization was developed as a model guided-inquiry experiment for third-year undergraduate students to bridge the gap between explicitly prescribed laboratories and independent fourth-year research projects. Resveratrol photoisomerization was performed directly in a NMR tube within a UV photochemical reactor during which aliquots of sample were removed and diluted at specific time intervals for …