The importance of inter- and intramolecular van der waals interactions in organic reactions: The dimerization of anthracene revisited

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 625-629

  Grimme, Stefan ^a   Diedrich, Christian ^a   Korth, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Anthracene; Density functional calculations; Noncovalent interactions; Solvent effects

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ANTHRACENE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; NONCOVALENT INTERACTIONS; SOLVENT EFFECTS;

DIMERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

REACTION KINETICS;

ANTHRACENE; ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REVIEW;

ANTHRACENES; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DIMERIZATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 31044437519     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200502440     Document Type: Review

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