Revisiting the Mechanism of the Unimolecular Fragmentation of Protonated Fluorobenzene

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 103, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 4609-4620

  Schröder, Detlef ^a   Oref, Izhack ^b   Hrušák, Jan ^c   Weiske, Thomas ^a   Nikitin, Evgueni E ^b   Zummack, Waltraud ^a   Schwarz, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 0042634078     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp990624v     Document Type: Article

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