Benzocyclobutene: The impact of fusing a strained ring onto benzene

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1818-1824

  Glasovac, Zoran ^a   Eckert Maksic, Mirjana ^a   Broadus, Katherine M ^b   Hare, Michael C ^b,c   Kass, Steven R ^b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOBUTANE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GEOMETRY; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034708731     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo991825y     Document Type: Article

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