Teaching the right reasons: Lessons from the mistaken origin of the rotational barrier in ethane

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 3579-3582

  Schreiner, Peter R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkanes; Computations; Conformational analysis; Hyperconjugation; Rotational barriers

Indexed keywords

TEACHING;

ROTATIONAL BARRIERS;

ETHANE;

ETHANE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SHORT SURVEY; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0037020383     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20021004)41:19<3579::AID-ANIE3579>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Short Survey

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