Structure and C-S bond cleavage in aryl 1-methyl-1-arylethyl sulfide radical cations

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 573-582

  Baciocchi, Enrico ^a   Bettoni, Marta ^b   Del Giacco, Tiziana ^b   Lanzalunga, Osvaldo ^a   Mazzonna, Marco ^a   Mencarelli, Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BAND; BOND SCISSIONS; BOND-DISSOCIATION FREE ENERGIES; C-C BONDS; C-S BOND CLEAVAGE; CARBOCATIONS; DELOCALIZATIONS; DFT CALCULATION; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; HEXAFLUOROPHOSPHATES; LASER FLASH PHOTOLYSIS; METHOXY; PHENANTHRIDINIUM; RADICAL CATIONS; REORGANIZATION ENERGIES; SPIN DELOCALIZATIONS; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE PHOTOLYSIS;

CHEMICAL BONDS; PHOTOLYSIS; POSITIVE IONS;

FREE RADICAL REACTIONS;

CATION; DISULFIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIMERIZATION; DISSOCIATION; ENERGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOOXIDATION; QUANTUM YIELD; STEADY STATE;

CATIONS; FREE RADICALS; LASERS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOLYSIS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFIDES;

EID: 78651498737     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: 15206904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo102086f     Document Type: Article

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