Reactivity Paradigms: Transition State Structure, Mechanisms of Barrier Formation, and Stereospecificity of Nucleophilic Substitutions on σ-Cation Radicals

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 3205-3222

  Shaik, Sason ^a   Reddy, A Chandrasekhar ^a   Danovich, David ^a   Ioffe, Alexander ^a   Dinnocenzo, Joseph P ^b   Cho, Jeoung Ki ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c Man Su Z Dong 80 257 ^*  (South Korea)

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EID: 0001206104     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja00116a025     Document Type: Article

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