Theoretical Studies of the Structure, Aromaticity, and Magnetic Properties of o-Benzyne

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 2761-2764

  Jiao, Haijun ^a   Schleyer, Paul Von Ragué ^a   Beno, Brett R ^b   Houk, Kendall N ^b   Warmuth, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

1,2 didehydrobenzene; Aromaticity; Density functional calculations; NMR spectroscopy; Strained molecules

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750314789     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199727611     Document Type: Article

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