Spectroscopic determination of ΔH° for axial/equatorial and ethyl tor conformations in 4-methyl and 4-ethyl cyclohexanone cooled in a supersonic jet

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 869-875

  Potts, Alan R ^a   Baer, Tomas ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; CONFORMATIONS; COOLING; ENTHALPY; JETS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ETHYL CYCLOHEXANONE; INTERCONVERSION EQUILIBRIA; METHYL CYCLOHEXANONE; ROTOR CONFORMATION; SUPERSONIC EXPANSION; SUPERSONIC JET; VANT HOFF PLOT;

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031696673     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.475450     Document Type: Article

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