Abstract
The energy barriers for the addition to ethylene of a series of carbenes have been calculated at an ab initio level. using the STO-3G and 3-21G basis sets. It is shown that the usual extrapolation of experiment results, which predicts that the reactivity of carbenes decreases when increasing its nucleophilic character, is not valid. © 1985.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 33-37 |
Journal | Chemical Physics |
Volume | 100 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Nov 1985 |