Spherical homoaromaticity

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 4309-4312

  Chen, Zhongfang ^a   Jiao, Haijun ^c,d   Hirsch, Andreas ^a   Von Ragué Schleyer, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c SHANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aromaticity; Cage compounds; Electron counting rules; NICS; Spherical homoaromaticity

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTRONS;

NUCLEUS INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL SHIFTS (NICS);

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

ADAMANTANE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CUBANE DERIVATIVE; DODECAHEDRANE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2242482046     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20021115)41:22<4309::AID-ANIE4309>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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