A spontaneous fragmentation: From the Criegee zwitterion to coarctate Mobius aromaticity

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 37, Issue 13-14, 1998, Pages 1850-1853

  Berger, Christian ^b   Bresler, Christian ^b   Dilger, Ulrich ^b   Geuenich, Daniel ^a   Herges, Rainer ^a   Röttele, Herbert ^b   Schröder, Gerhard ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aromaticity; Fragmentations; Ozonolysis; Spiro compounds; Transition states

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032479723     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980803)37:13/14<1850::AID-ANIE1850>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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