Nitromethane-methyl nitrite rearrangement: A persistent discrepancy between theory and experiment

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 4286-4291

  Nguyen, Minh Tho ^a   Le, Hung Thanh ^a,d   Hajgató, Balázs ^a,b   Veszprémi, Tamás ^b   Lin, M C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; DISSOCIATION; ISOMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REACTION KINETICS;

METHYL NITRITE; NITROMETHANE; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE; UNIMOLECULAR REARRANGEMENT;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 0037863826     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp027532h     Document Type: Article

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