A DFT study on nucleophilicity and site selectivity of nitrogen nucleophiles

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 980, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-55

  Deuri, Sanjib ^a   Phukan, Prodeep ^a  

^a GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

DFT; N nucleophiles; Nucleophilicity; Nucleophilicity index; Philicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84555223778     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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