Secondary alpha isotope effects on deuterium tunneling in triplet o-methylanthrones: Extraordinary sensitivity to barrier width

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 29, 2005, Pages 10178-10179

  Campos, Luis M ^a   Warrier, Manoj V ^a   Peterfy, Krisztina ^a   Houk, K N ^a   Garcia Garibay, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHYLANTHRONE DERIVATIVE; ACETONE; DEUTERIUM; ISOTOPE; METHYL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOSPHORESCENCE; QUANTUM MECHANICAL TUNNELING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 22944436856     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja052487n     Document Type: Article

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