Different behavior of nitrenes and carbenes on photolysis and thermolysis: Formation of azirine, ylidic cumulene, and cyclic ketenimine and the rearrangement of 6-phenanthridylcarbene to 9-phenanthrylnitrene

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7947-7955

  Kvaskoff, David ^a   Bednarek, Pawel ^a   George, Lisa ^a   Pankajakshan, Sreekumar ^a   Wentrup, Curt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOLYSIS;

CARBENES; FLASH VACUUM THERMOLYSIS (FVT); NITRENES; YLIDIC CUMULINE;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

4 CYANOFLUORENE; 6 (5 TETRAZOLYL)PHENANTHRIDINE; 9 AZIDOPHENANTHRENE; 9 CYANOFLUORENE; [1,2,3]TRIAZOLO[1,5 F]PHENANTHRIDINE; ARGON; AZIDE; AZIRINE DERIVATIVE; CARBENE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; KETENE DERIVATIVE; KETENIMINE; NITRENE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS;

AZIRINES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ETHYLENES; HEAT; HYDROCARBONS; IMINES; KETONES; METHANE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHENANTHRIDINES; PHOTOLYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 25444524624     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo050898g     Document Type: Article

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