6,6-Dicyanopentafulvenes: Electronic structure and regioselectivity in [2 + 2] cycloaddition-retroelectrocyclization reactions

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 18139-18146

  Finke, Aaron D ^a   Dumele, Oliver ^a   Zalibera, Michal ^b   Confortin, Daria ^b   Cias, Pawel ^b   Jayamurugan, Govindasamy ^a   Gisselbrecht, Jean Paul ^c   Boudon, Corinne ^c   Schweizer, W Bernd ^a   Gescheidt, Georg ^b   Diederich, François ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

[2 + 2] CYCLOADDITION; ALKYNYLS; DELOCALIZATIONS; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; ELECTRON-RICH; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; EPR SPECTRA; METAL REDUCTION; PHENYL RINGS; PHYSICAL EVIDENCE; PUSH-PULL CHROMOPHORES; RADICAL ANIONS; SILICON ATOMS; TETRAKIS; UNPAIRED ELECTRONS;

ACETYLENE; CHROMOPHORES; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NEGATIVE IONS; PARAMAGNETISM; REGIOSELECTIVITY; SODIUM;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

6,6 DICYANOPENTAFULVENE; ANION; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONJUGATION; CYCLIZATION; CYCLOADDITION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

CYCLIZATION; CYCLOPENTANES; ELECTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84868089359     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja309141r     Document Type: Article

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