Chemistry of unique chiral olefins. 4. Theoretical studies of the racemization mechanism of trans- and cis-1,1',2,2',3,3',4,4'-octahydro-4,4'- biphenanthrylidenes

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1667-1674

  Zijlstra, Robert W J ^a   Jager, Wolter F ^a   De Lange, Ben ^a   Van Duijnen, Piet Th ^a   Feringa, Ben L ^a   Goto, Hitoshi ^b   Saito, Akira ^b   Koumura, Nagatoshi ^b   Harada, Nobuyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; BIPHENANTHRYLIDENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONFORMATION; ENANTIOMER; ENTHALPY; ISOMERISM; OPTICAL ROTATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RACEMIC MIXTURE; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0033525823     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo982381t     Document Type: Article

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