Monocyclic (CH)9+ - A heilbronner mobius aromatic system revealed

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2395-2397

  Mauksch, Michael ^a   Gogonea, Valentin ^a   Jiao, Haijun ^a   Von Ragué Schleyer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aromaticity; Carbocations; Density functional calculations; Magnetic properties; Mobius strips

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032544480     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980918)37:17<2395::AID-ANIE2395>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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