From overcrowded polycyclic aromatic enes to semifullerenes

Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 167-175

  Ulrich Biedermann, P ^a,b   Luh, Tien Yau ^c   Weng, David T C ^c   Kuo, Chi Hong ^c   Stezowski, John J ^d   Agranat, Israel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Non planar PAHs; Overcrowding; Photocyclization; Semiempirical calculations; Strain

Indexed keywords

FULLERENES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

DEHYDROCYCLIZATION; ENERGETIC EFFECT; NON-PLANAR PAH; OVERCROWDING; PHOTOCYCLIZATION; PM3 CALCULATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATICS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL CALCULATION; SEMIEMPIRICAL MNDO; STERIC EFFECT;

ISOMERIZATION;

EID: 3142527009     PISSN: 10406638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10406639608048342     Document Type: Article

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