A preferred disrotatory 4n electron möbius aromatic transition state for a thermal electrocyclic reaction

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2959-2963

  Mauksch, Michael ^a   Tsogoeva, Svetlana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ELECTROCYCLIC REACTIONS; TOPOLOGY STRUCTURE; TRANSITION STATE; TRANSITION STRUCTURES; WOODWARD;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; MOLYBDENUM;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 70349915881     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200806009     Document Type: Article

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