Regioselective Bond Cleavage in the Dissociative Electron Transfer to Benzyl Thiocyanates

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 42, 2003, Pages 12676-12677

  Houmam, Abdelaziz ^a   Hamed, Emad M ^a   Hapiot, Philippe ^b   Motto, John M ^a   Schwan, Adrian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; BENZYL THIOCYANATE; TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OXIDATION; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0142104255     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja036710x     Document Type: Article

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