Compelling computational evidence for the concerted cyclization of the ABC rings of hopene from protonated squalene

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 17111-17117

  Smentek, Lidia ^a   Hess Jr , B Andes ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOCATIONS; CONCERTED REACTIONS; DFT METHOD; DOUBLE BONDS; GASPHASE; INTRINSIC REACTION COORDINATE; PROTONATED; RING EXPANSION; TRITERPENES;

PROTONATION;

CYCLIZATION;

SQUALENE; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PROTON TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS;

CYCLIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SQUALENE; TRITERPENES;

EID: 78650087420     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja1039133     Document Type: Article

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