A system with three contiguous planar tetracoordinate carbons is viable: A computational study on a C6H62+ isomer

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1515-1517

  Deva Priyakumar, U ^a   Narahari Sastry, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aromatic stabilization; C6H62+; Calculations; Planar tetracoordinate carbon; Singlet triplet gap

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CARBON;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; ATOM; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY; ISOMER; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0942298976     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2003.12.019     Document Type: Article

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