Tracking "invisible" alkylchlorocarbenes by their σ → p absorptions: Dynamics and solvent interactions

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 32, 2007, Pages 10019-10028

  Moss, Robert A ^a   Tian, Jingzhi ^a   Sauers, Ronald R ^a   Krogh Jespersen, Karsten ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLCHLOROCARBENES; INTERMOLECULAR CARBENES; LASER FLASH PHOTOLYSIS;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

OLEFINS;

1 ADAMANTYLCHLOROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; 1,3 DIMETHOXYBENZENE DERIVATIVE; ANISOLE DERIVATIVE; BENZYLCHLOROCARBENE DERIVATIVE; CARBENOID; CHLOROCARBENE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPROPYLCHLOROCARBENE DERIVATIVE; METHYLCHLOROCARBENE DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; TERT BUTYLCHLOROCARBENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPLEX FORMATION; LASER FLASH PHOTOLYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTOLYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 34547899129     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja071799i     Document Type: Article

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