The twin-excited state as a probe for the transition state in concerted unimolecular reactions: The semibullvalene rearrangement

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1394-1397

  Zilberg, Shmuel ^a   Haas, Yehuda ^a   Danovich, David ^a   Shaik, Sason ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Rearrangements; Spectroscopy; Transition states

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032486209     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980605)37:10<1394::AID-ANIE1394>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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