1,2,3-Tridehydrobenzene

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 39, 2005, Pages 6306-6311

  Venkataramani, Sugumar ^a   Winkler, Michael ^a   Sander, Wolfram ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Dehydrobenzenes; IR spectroscopy; Matrix isolation; Radicals

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; FREE RADICALS; GROUND STATE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

CRYOGENIC MATRICES; IR SPECTRUM;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; FREE RADICAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; FREE RADICALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 26844435754     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200501912     Document Type: Article

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