Highly strained 2,3-bridged 2H-azirines at the borderline of closed-shell molecules

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1128-1136

  Banert, Klaus ^a   Meier, Barbara ^a   Penk, Enrico ^a   Saha, Biswajit ^a   Würthwein, Ernst Ulrich ^b   Grimme, Stefan ^b   Rüffer, Tobias ^a   Schaarschmidt, Dieter ^a   Lang, Heinrich ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

azides; nitrogen heterocycles; photolysis; quantum chemical calculations; reactive intermediates

Indexed keywords

2H-AZIRINES; AZIDES; CAS-SCF; CCSD; CLOSED SHELLS; FIVE-MEMBERED RINGS; HETEROCYCLES; HIGHLY STRAINED; NITRENES; NITROGEN HETEROCYCLES; NMR SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL METHODS; REACTIVE INTERMEDIATE; RING OPENING; SECONDARY PRODUCT; SUBSTITUTION PATTERNS; TRIPLET ENERGY;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOLYSIS; POSITIVE IONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REACTION INTERMEDIATES;

SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 78751618859     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002474     Document Type: Article

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