Altering the allowed/forbidden gap in cyclobutene electrocyclic reactions: Experimental and theoretical evaluations of the effect of planarity constraints

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 5839-5848

  Lee, Patrick S ^a   Sakai, Shogo ^b   Hörstermann, Peter ^c   Roth, Wolfgang R ^c   Kallel, E Adam ^a   Houk, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OSAKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTROCYCLIC REACTIONS;

BUTENES;

3,4 DIMETHYLTRICYCLO[4.2.1.0 2.5 ]NON 2(5) ENE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CYCLOBUTENE; METHYL GROUP; NORBORNENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; REACTION ANALYSIS; RING OPENING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037955548     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja028963g     Document Type: Article

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