Demoniac intervention in the thermal electrocyclic ring opening of cyclobutenes: Fe(CO)3 complexation of pericyclic transition structures

Helvetica Chimica Acta

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1396-1404

  Tantillo, Dean J ^a   Hoffmann, Roald ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; IRON COMPOUNDS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

THERMAL ELECTROCYCLIC;

BUTENES;

BUTANE; CARBON; CYCLOBUTENE DERIVATIVE; IRON; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENERGY; HYBRID; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0034895710     PISSN: 0018019X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-2675(20010613)84:6<1396::AID-HLCA1396>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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