Hetero-wolff rearrangement of an α-sulfinyl carbene: Thermally activated intersystem crossing of the lowest excited triplet state of a ground-state singlet carbene

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 2014, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2297-2304

  O'Sullivan, Orlagh C M ^a   Collins, Stuart G ^a   Maguire, Anita R ^a   Buche, Götz ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbenes; Computational chemistry; Diazo compounds; Flash photolysis; Laser spectroscopy; Sulfoxides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897573298     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201301603     Document Type: Article

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