Unusually Stable Organomercury Hydrides and Radicals

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 374-376

  Nakamura, Eiichi ^a   Yu, Yong ^a   Mori, Seiji ^a   Yamago, Shigeru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density functional calculations; Hydrides; Mercury; Radicals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030953007     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199703741     Document Type: Article

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