A computational study on the competing intramolecular amidation and aziridination reactions catalyzed by dirhodium tetracarboxylate

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 999, Issue , 2012, Pages 74-82

  Lin, Xufeng ^a   Xi, Yanyan ^a   Sun, Jian ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Amidation; Aziridination; Density functional calculation; Dirhodium tetracarboxylate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869082792     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2012.08.016     Document Type: Article

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