Cumulene rearrangements: Ketene-ketene, isocyanate-isocyanate, thioketeneketene, imidoylketene-ketenimine, and ketene-allene rearrangements

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1586-1599

  Wentrup, Curt ^a   Finnerty, Justin J ^a,b   Koch, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allene; Isocyanate; Ketene; Ketenimine; Thioketene

Indexed keywords

ALLENES; CUMULENES; ELECTRON-RICH; IMIDOYLKETENES; INTERCONVERSIONS; ISOCYANATE; KETENE; KETENIMINES; LONE PAIR; THIOKETENES;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 77956396652     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138527210793563279     Document Type: Article

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