Tuning the singlet-triplet energy gap in a non-Kekule series by designed structural variation. The singlet states of N-substituted-3,4-dimethylenepyrrole biradicals

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1406-1415

  Bush, Linda C ^a,c   Heath, Richard B ^a   Feng, Xu Wu ^a   Wang, Patricia A ^a   Maksimovic, Ljiljana ^a   Song, Anne In ^a   Chung, Wen Sheng ^a   Berinstain, Alain B ^b   Scaiano, J C ^b   Berson, Jerome A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DRUG STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030896462     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja963113k     Document Type: Article

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