Phosphadioxirane: A peroxide from an ortho-substituted arylphosphine and singlet dioxygen

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5643, 2003, Pages 259-262

  Ho, David G ^a   Gao, Ruomei ^a   Celaje, Jeff ^a   Chung, Ha Yong ^a   Selke, Matthias ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLEFINS; PEROXIDES; STABILITY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

STERIC PROPERTIES;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

ALKENE; PEROXIDE; PHOSPHADIOXIRANE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORANE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS; SINGLET OXYGEN; TRIS(2 METHOXYPHENYL)PHOSPHINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS, 1-RING; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PEROXIDES; PHOSPHINES; PHOSPHORUS; SINGLET OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0141924569     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089145     Document Type: Article

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21. Support by the NIH-National Institute of General Medical Sciences MBRS program (Award GM 08101) is gratefully acknowledged. Acknowledgment is also made to the Donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for partial support of this research. J.C. was supported by the NIH Biomedical Post-Baccalaureate Research Program (Award GM 64104).