Reactivity of carbenes and ketenes in low-temperature matrices. Carbene CO trapping, Wolff rearrangement, and ketene-pyridine ylide (zwitterion) observation

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 50, 1996, Pages 12598-12602

  Visser, Peter ^a   Zuhse, Ralf ^a   Wong, Ming Wah ^a   Wentrup, Curt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; DIKETONE;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030482376     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja962672o     Document Type: Article

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