A unique autocatalytic process and evidence for a concerted-stepwise mechanism transition in the dissociative electron-transfer reduction of aryl thiocyanates

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7258-7265

  Houmam, Abdelaziz ^a   Hamed, Emad M ^a   Still, Ian W J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; REDUCTION; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

CLEAVAGE MECHANISMS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

3,5 DINITROPHENYL THIOCYANATE; 4 METHOXY THIOCYANATE; 4 METHOXYPHENYL DISULFIDE; 4 METHYL DISULFIDE; 4 METHYL THIOCYANATE; ANION; DISULFIDE; RADICAL; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; POTENTIOMETRY; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; CATALYSIS; DISULFIDES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; THERMODYNAMICS; THIOCYANATES;

EID: 0038111863     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja028542z     Document Type: Article

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