Substituent effect on stereospecificity and energy of concert of the retro-diels-alder reaction of isopropylidenenorbornene

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 102, Issue 39, 1998, Pages 7662-7667

  Tian, Jing ^a   Houk, K N ^a   Klarner F G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0000108423     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp9823953     Document Type: Article

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