Insights into some Diels-Alder cycloadditions via the electrostatic potential and the reaction force constant

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1053, Issue , 2015, Pages 270-280

  Murray, Jane S ^a,b   Yepes, Diana ^c   Jaque, Pablo ^c   Politzer, Peter ^a,b  

^a University of New Orleans   (United States)

^b CleVeTheoComp LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Diels Alder cycloadditions; Molecular electrostatic potentials; Reaction force; Reaction force constant; Synchronicity nonsynchronicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920901869     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.08.010     Document Type: Article

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