Cyclic carbodiphosphorane-diphosphinocarbene thermal interconversion

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 45, Issue 44, 2006, Pages 7447-7450

  Marrot, Sebastien ^a   Kato, Tsuyoshi ^a   Cossío, Fernando P ^b   Gornitzka, Heinz ^a   Baceiredo, Antoine ^a  

^a UMR 5069) 118 route de Narbonne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbenes; Cycloaddition; Density functional calculations; Phosphorus; Ring contraction

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CARBENES; CYCLOADDITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; RING CONTRACTION;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33751208630     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200603151     Document Type: Article

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