Radical cation of a trimethylenemethane with a nondegenerate ground state

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1983-1988

  Bally, Thomas ^a   Maltsev, Alexander ^a   Gerson, Fabian ^b   Frank, Daniel ^c   De Meijere, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICALS; GAMMA RAYS; GROUND STATE; IONIZATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POSITIVE IONS;

RADICAL CATIONS; SINGLY OCCUPIED ORBITALS; TRIMETHYLENEMETAHNE (TMM); UNPAIRED ELECTRONS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

1,1,2,2 TETRAMETHYLTRIMETHYLENEMETHANE; 2,2,3,3 TETRAMETHYLMETHYLENECYCLOPROPANE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; CATION; RADICAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON NUCLEAR DOUBLE RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RING OPENING; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 13644266344     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja046961l     Document Type: Article

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