Unusual electrocyclic rearrangements with group 14 element compounds: Reversible isomerization of a π-aromatic digermyl complex with carbon-carbon and germanium-germanium multiple bond cleavage

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 180-183

  Summerscales, Owen T ^a   Jiménez Halla, J Oscar C ^b   Merino, Gabriel ^b   Power, Philip P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENTHALPIES; BOND CLEAVAGES; C-C BONDS; CYCLOOCTATETRAENE; GROUP 14 ELEMENT; ISOMERIC PRODUCTS; KINETIC PRODUCT; KINETIC STUDY; MULTIPLE BONDS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC PRODUCTS;

ISOMERS; NUCLEOPHILES; OLEFINS;

GERMANIUM;

ALKENE; CARBON; ETHYLENE; GERMANIUM; NORBORNADIENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; ISOMERIZATION; KINETICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78651399313     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja107380p     Document Type: Article

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