Re-Examination Of Some Carbocations: Structures, Energies, And Charge Distributions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Published In
Journal Of Organic Chemistry
Abstract
Chemists have had a long-standing interest in reactive intermediates such as carbenes, carbon radicals, carbanions, and carbocations. Carbocations are an interesting part of this group because of their tendency to undergo rearrangement, sometimes forming bridged ions, as well as their ability in many cases of spreading out the positive charge over several atoms. We have re-examined some of these cases using high-level compound procedures, W1BD and G4, as well as by considering the charge distributions making use of the Hirshfeld method that has been shown to uniquely correlate with several types of experimental data.
Recommended Citation
K. B. Wiberg and Paul R. Rablen.
(2020).
"Re-Examination Of Some Carbocations: Structures, Energies, And Charge Distributions".
Journal Of Organic Chemistry.
Volume 85,
Issue 18.
11741-11749.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01469
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