Lithium phenolates solvated by tetrahydrofuran and 1,2-dimethoxyethane: Structure determination using the method of continuous variation

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 13142-13154

  De Vries, Timothy S ^a   Goswami, Anandarup ^a   Liou, Lara R ^a   Gruver, Jocelyn M ^a   Jayne, Emily ^a   Collum, David B ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION NUMBERS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; HETERO-AGGREGATES; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; PENTAMERS; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION; TETRA-HYDROFURAN; TETRAMERS;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERS; PHENOLS;

LITHIUM;

DIMER; ETHANE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHYL ETHER; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; MONOMER; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; LITHIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ETHYL ETHERS; FURANS; LITHIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENOLS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 70349125054     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9047784     Document Type: Article

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