Bicorannulenyl: Stereochemistry of a C40H18 biaryl composed of two chiral bowls

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6073-6078

  Eisenberg, David ^a   Filatov, Alexander S ^b   Jackson, Edward A ^c   Rabinovitz, Mordecai ^a   Petrukhina, Marina A ^b   Scott, Lawrence T ^c   Shenhar, Roy ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MINE FLOODING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ACHIRAL TRANSITION; BOND ROTATIONS; BUCKYBOWLS; DFT CALCULATIONS; ENANTIOMERIZATION; MULTISTEP PROCESSES; SINGLE BONDS; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION; SOLID STATES; TRANSITION STATES; VARIABLE-TEMPERATURE NMR;

MOLECULES;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONFORMATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; MOLECULE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ROTATION; SOLID STATE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 50149089990     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo800359z     Document Type: Article

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