Effect of roaming transition states upon product branching in the thermal decomposition of CH3NO2

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 117, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 7308-7313

  Zhu, R S ^a   Raghunath, P ^b   Lin, M C ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION REACTION; HIGH-PRESSURE LIMITS; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; PRODUCT BRANCHING; SECOND-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; STATISTICAL THEORY; STRUCTURAL ISOMERS; THERMAL UNIMOLECULAR DECOMPOSITION;

DECOMPOSITION; ISOMERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RATE CONSTANTS;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

EID: 84882378118     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401148q     Document Type: Article

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