Carboranes and baskets from reaction of B4H10 with allene

Inorganic Chemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2883-2891

  Sayin, Hasan ^a   McKee, Michael L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247141875     PISSN: 00201669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ic070076x     Document Type: Article

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34. The brackets are used in the reaction sequence to indicate that the transition state TS13/14 is lower in energy than the intermediate 14, which suggests that the actual reaction is 13→TS14/ 15→15.
35. 2 group pivot which had a free energy lower by 0.6 kcal/mol.