Torsional barriers for planar versus twisted singlet styrenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2046-2047

  Lewis, Frederick D ^a   Zuo, Xiaobing ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; ISOMERISM; QUANTUM YIELD; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0037466994     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja029430a     Document Type: Article

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