Intrinsic barriers and transition state structures in the gas phase carbon-to-carbon identity proton transfers from nitromethane to nitromethide anion and from protonated nitromethane to aci-nitromethane. An ab Initio study

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 119, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 4008-4020

  Bernasconi, Claude F ^a   Wenzel, Philip J ^a   Keeffe, James R ^b   Gronert, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; CARBON; NITROMETHANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICITY; ENTHALPY; GAS; HYDROGEN BOND; PROTON TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030984919     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja963492h     Document Type: Article

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