Thermal unimolecular elimination of water from tert-Butyl alcohol: Deuterium kinetic isotope effects, transition structure, reaction path, and mechanism

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2004, Pages 11554-11558

  Kalra, Bansi L ^a,d   Lewis, David K ^a   Singer, Stephanie R ^b   Raghavan, Anuradha S ^b   Baldwin, John E ^b   Hess Jr , B Andes ^c  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOLLINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECTS (KIE); KINETIC MODELING; REACTION PATH; UNIMOLECULAR ELIMINATION;

ALCOHOLS; DECOMPOSITION; ETHYLENE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES; MECHANISMS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

WATER;

EID: 11344273262     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp046020v     Document Type: Article

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