New approaches to degenerate interconversions of organic structures: 1. Levels of structural degeneracy and computer-aided search for degenerate rearrangements

Croatica Chemica Acta

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 339-353

  Tratch, Serge S ^a   Molchanova, Marina S ^b   Zefirova, Nikolai S ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

ARGENT 1 software; Degenerate interconversions; Graph based classification; New "cope like" rearrangements; Reaction design problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846459658     PISSN: 00111643     EISSN: 1334417X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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