Bis(diethylamino)carbene and the mechanism of dimerisation for simple diaminocarbenes

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 19, 2004, Pages 2172-2173

  Alder, Roger W ^a   Chaker, Leila ^a   Paolini, François P V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIS(DIETHYLAMINO)CARBENE; CARBENOID; FORMAMIDINE; TETRAHYDROFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DIMERIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 8144223124     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b409112d     Document Type: Article

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17. Calculations were performed with the Jaguar program package (Jaguar 4.2 edn.; Schrodinger, Inc., Portland, OR, USA, 1991-2002) using Becke's three-parameter exchange functional (A. D. Becke, J. Chem. Phys., 1993, 98, 5648) with the correlation functional of Lee, Yang and Parr (B3LYP) (C. T. Lee, W. T. Yang and R. G. Parr, Phys. Rev. B, 1988, 37, 785); full details will be reported elsewhere.
18. Calculations were performed with the Jaguar program package (Jaguar 4.2 edn.; Schrodinger, Inc., Portland, OR, USA, 1991-2002) using Becke's three-parameter exchange functional (A. D. Becke, J. Chem. Phys., 1993, 98, 5648) with the correlation functional of Lee, Yang and Parr (B3LYP) (C. T. Lee, W. T. Yang and R. G. Parr, Phys. Rev. B, 1988, 37, 785); full details will be reported elsewhere.
19. Calculations were performed with the Jaguar program package (Jaguar 4.2 edn.; Schrodinger, Inc., Portland, OR, USA, 1991-2002) using Becke's three-parameter exchange functional (A. D. Becke, J. Chem. Phys., 1993, 98, 5648) with the correlation functional of Lee, Yang and Parr (B3LYP) (C. T. Lee, W. T. Yang and R. G. Parr, Phys. Rev. B, 1988, 37, 785); full details will be reported elsewhere.