Heavy element π donation is not less effective

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2236-2238

  Kapp, Jürgen ^a   Schade, Christian ^b   El Nahasa, Ahmed M ^a   Von Ragué Schleyer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Carbocations; Conjugation; Theoretical chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030445478     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199622361     Document Type: Article

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