Generation of the elusive meta-benzoquinone in the gas phase

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3092-3096

  Roithová, Jana ^a,b   Schröder, Detlef ^a   Schwarz, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Decarbonylation; Density functional calculations; Mass spectrometry; Quinones; Radical ions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

GAS PHASE; META-BENZOQUINONE; ORGANIC BIRADICALS; REIONIZATION;

KETONES;

EID: 18844457877     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200461783     Document Type: Article

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