Structural determination of menthol and isomenthol, a minty compound and its nonminty isomer, by means of gas electron diffraction augmented by theoretical calculations

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2757-2762

  Egawa, Toru ^a   Sakamoto, Minoru ^a   Takeuchi, Hiroshi ^a   Konaka, Shigehiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL;

CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037451940     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp022163a     Document Type: Article

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