In-plane bishomoaromaticity in tetranitrogen dianions: Solid-state, solution, and electronic structures

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2433-2437

  Geier, Jens ^a,c   Grützmacher, Hansjörg ^a   Exner, Kai ^b   Prinzbach, Horst ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bisdiazenes; Dianions; Heterocycles; Homoaromaticity; Quantum chemical calculations

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; DIMERS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE IONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REDUCTION; SODIUM; SOLUTIONS;

BISHOMOAROMATICITY; DIMER STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; TETRANITROGEN DIANIONS;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 18044380917     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200462126     Document Type: Article

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