A general route to fully terminally tert-butylated linear polyenes

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 34, 2010, Pages 10507-10522

  Klein, Dagmar ^a   Kiliçkiran, Pinar ^a   Mlynek, Cornelia ^a   Hopf, Henning ^a   Dix, Ina ^a   Jones, Peter G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; McMurry coupling; Polyolefins tert butyl stabilization; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOIDS; CONJUGATED DOUBLE BONDS; LINEAR POLYENES; MCMURRY COUPLING; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; UNSATURATED KETONES; X RAY STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL BONDS; DIFFRACTION; KETONES; POLYOLEFINS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

X RAYS;

EID: 77956447065     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201000019     Document Type: Article

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