Steric strain versus hyperconjugative stabilization in ethane congeners

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2310-2316

  Song, Lingchun ^a   Lin, Yuchun ^b   Wu, Wei ^a   Zhang, Qianer ^a   Mo, Yirong ^a,b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENERS; GEOMETRIC RELAXATION; MOLECULAR ORBITAL (MO) THEORY; RESONANCE STRUCTURE;

CHEMICAL BONDS; CONFORMATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; QUENCHING; RESONANCE;

ETHANE;

EID: 15944403519     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp044700s     Document Type: Article

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