Exploration of cyclopropyl radical ring opening to allyl radical by Newton trajectories: Importance of valley-ridge inflection points to understand the topography

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 803-821

  Quapp, Wolfgang ^a   Bofill, Josep Maria ^b   Aguilar Mogas, Antoni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disrotatory and conrotatory case; Newton trajectory; Reaction bifurcation; Ring opening of cyclopropyl radical; Valley ridge inflection point

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960173586     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-011-0938-4     Document Type: Article

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