Studies on the solvolytic reactivity of tertiary chloroalkanes in hexafluoro-2-propanol by ab initio and force field calculations

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 9552-9554

  Liu, Kwang Ting ^a   Tsao, Meng Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; IONIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032509387     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo981089i     Document Type: Article

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