Substituent effects on the vinylcyclopropane-cyclopentene rearrangement - A theoretical study by restricted and unrestricted density functional theory

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 1, 1999, Pages 215-220

  Sperling, Dirk ^a   Fabian, Jürgen ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biradical like transition structure; Density functional calculations; Substituent effects; Vinylcyclopropane cyclopentene rearrangement; 1,3 Sigmatropic shift

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPENTENE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYLCYCLOPROPANE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; REACTION ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 0032809169     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0690(199901)1999:1<215::AID-EJOC215>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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