Dehalogenation of aromatics by nucleophilic aromatic substitution

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 10904-10911

  Sadowsky, Daniel ^a,b   McNeill, Kristopher ^a   Cramer, Christopher J ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; NUCLEOPHILES; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ANIONIC INTERMEDIATES; CARBON-HALOGEN BOND; CONTINUUM SOLVATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; HYDRO-DEHALOGENATION; NUCLEOPHILIC ADDITIONS; NUCLEOPHILIC AROMATIC SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOPHILIC AROMATIC SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

AROMATIZATION;

BROMOBENZENE; CARBON; CHLOROBENZENE; FLUOROBENZENE; GLUTATHIONE; HALOGEN; HYDROXIDE; NUCLEOPHILE; ANION; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CHEMICAL PROCESS; FLUORINE; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DEHALOGENATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENTROPY; NUCLEOPHILICITY; SOLVATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; HALOGENATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIONS; BENZENE; ENVIRONMENT; HALOGENATION; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PROCESSES; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84924785799     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5028822     Document Type: Article

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