Ab Initio calculations of the potential surfaces for rearrangement of methylenecyclopropane and 2,2-difluoromethylenecyclopropane. Why do the geminal fluorines have little effect on lowering the activation energy?

Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin Transactions 2

Volumn , Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2339-2347

  Lewis, Scott B ^a   Hrovat, David A ^a   Getty, Stephen J ^a   Borden, Weston Thatcher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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