The concept of protobranching and its many paradigm shifting implications for energy evaluations

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 7731-7744

  Wodrich, Matthew D ^a   Wannere, Chaitanya S ^a   Mo, Yirong ^b   Jarowski, Peter D ^c   Houk, Kendall N ^c   Von Ragué Schleyer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromaticity; Hyperconjugation; Protobranching; Ring strain

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BUTADIENE; CHEMICAL BONDS; ISOMERS; METHANE; RESONANCE;

AROMATICITY; HYPERCONJUGATION; PROTOBRANCHING; RING STRAINS;

PARAFFINS;

EID: 34748902875     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200700602     Document Type: Article

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