Ambident reactivity of the nitrite ion revisited

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 29, 2005, Pages 4623-4626

  Tishkov, Alexander A ^a   Schmidhammer, Uli ^a   Roth, Stefan ^a   Riedle, Eberhard ^a   Mayr, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

HSAB principle; Kinetics; Klopman Salem equation; Kornblum's rule; Nitro compounds

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DIFFUSION; MIXTURES; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

NITRITE IONS; ORBITAL CONTROL; PRODUCT MIXTURES; REACTIVITY;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

EID: 22744453841     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200501274     Document Type: Article

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