Is experimental evidence sufficient enough to account for the stabilization effect of bisnitroxide on the fate of NMP experiments?

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1404-1406

  Marque, Sylvain R A ^a   Siri, Didier ^a  

^a Laboratoire Chimie Pro Ence   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ALKOXYAMINE; ANALYSIS RESULTS; ARRHENIUS PARAMETERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DIHEDRAL ANGLES; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HOMOLYSIS; NITROXIDE; STABILIZATION EFFECTS; UNIMOLECULAR;

AMINES; CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM; RADAR ANTENNAS; RATE CONSTANTS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 66549091301     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma802432a     Document Type: Article

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