Ab initio MO study of the global potential energy surface of C4H4 in triplet electronic state and the reactions of C(3P(j)) with C3H4 (allene and propyne) and C2(A3Π(u)) with C2H4(X1A(1g)/+)

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1776-1788

  Mebel, A M ^a,b   Kaiser, R I ^a,c,d   Lee, Y T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMERISM; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034007881     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9935299     Document Type: Article

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