Cyclopropenylidenes: From interstellar space to an isolated derivative in the laboratory

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5774, 2006, Pages 722-724

  Lavallo, Vincent ^a   Canac, Yves ^a   Donnadieu, Bruno ^a   Schoeller, Wolfgang W ^b   Bertrand, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DERIVATIVES; ELECTRON EMISSION; THERMOANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CYCLOPROPENYLIDENE DERIVATIVES; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; INTERSTELLAR SPACE; SINGLET CARBENE;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AMINE; CARBENE; CARBON; CYCLOPROPENYLIDENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; CARBON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; LABORATORY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPACE; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLOPROPANES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33646439534     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126675     Document Type: Article

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