The equilibrium between localized and delocalized states of thermochromic semibullvalenes and barbaralanes - Direct observation of transition states of degenerate cope rearrangements

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1064-1067

  Quast, Helmut ^a   Seefelder, Maximilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cope rearrangements; Homoaromaticity; Transition states; UV Vis spectroscopy; Valence isomerization

Indexed keywords

NITRILE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENTHALPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033583453     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990419)38:8<1064::AID-ANIE1064>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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