Solvent effects on the equilibrium between localized and delocalized states of thermochromic semibullvalenes and barbaralanes

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1068-1071

  Seefelder, Maximilian ^a   Quast, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cope rearrangements; Homoaromaticity; Solvent effects; Transition states; Valence isomerization

Indexed keywords

NITRILE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENTHALPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0033583506     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19990419)38:8<1068::AID-ANIE1068>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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