Lithium monoxide anion: A ground-state triplet with the strongest base to date

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 7647-7651

  Tian, Zhixin ^a   Chan, Bun ^b   Sullivan, Michael B ^b,c   Radom, Leo ^b   Kass, Steven R ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computations; Mass spectrometry; Super base

Indexed keywords

BASE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM HYDROXIDE; LITHIUM MONOXIDE ANION;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 45749083489     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801393105     Document Type: Article

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