"Electromers" of the Tetramethyleneethane Radical Cation and Their Nonexistence in the Octamethyl Derivative: Interplay of Experiment and Theory

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 45, 2003, Pages 13776-13783

  Müller, Beat ^a,d   Bally, Thomas ^a   Gerson, Fabian ^b   De Meijere, Armin ^c   Von Seebach, Malte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d BUWAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELOCALIZED STRUCTURES;

DERIVATIVES; IONIZATION; POSITIVE IONS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ARGON; BICYCLOPROPYLIDENE; CATION; CYCLOBUTANE DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; METHYL GROUP; OCTAMETHYL DERIVATIVE; PROPANE; RADICAL; TETRAMETHYLENEETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GAMMA IRRADIATION; IONIZATION; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PREDICTION; REACTION ANALYSIS; RING OPENING; SOLID; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 16744366259     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja037252v     Document Type: Article

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