Reinvestigation of the isotope effects for the Claisen and aromatic claisen rearrangements: The nature of the Claisen transition states

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 121, Issue 47, 1999, Pages 10865-10874

  Meyer, Matthew P ^a   DelMonte, Albert J ^a   Singleton, Daniel A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ETHER DERIVATIVE; ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033486016     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja992372h     Document Type: Article

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