Quantum Mechanical Study of Regioselectivity of Radical Additions to Substituted Olefins

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 675-691

  Arnaud, Roger ^a   Vetere, Valentina ^b   Barone, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anomeric and polar effects; Density functional model; Olefins; Post Hartree Fock model; Radical additions; Regiochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003853935     PISSN: 01928651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-987X(200006)21:8<675::AID-JCC7>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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