Quantifying the reactivity of a remarkably long-lived difluorinated enol in acidic methanol via solution kinetics and electronic structure calculations

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 8250-8255

  Griffith, Gerry A ^a   Hillier, Ian H ^b   Percy, Jonathan M ^c   Roig, Ricard ^a   Vincent, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOLS; REACTIVITY; TRANSITION STATE;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROTONS; REACTION KINETICS; SOLUTIONS;

ALCOHOLS;

ACETAL; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ENOL DERIVATIVE; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; METHANOL; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLUORINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750005591     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo061450y     Document Type: Article

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