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Enhanced pi ... pi interactions in alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyls
Lisa D Harris1, James A Platts, Nicholas C Tomkinson
1Department of Chemistry, Cardiff University, PO Box 912, Cardiff, UK CF10 3TB.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 21, 2003
Abstract:
High level ab initio calculations on complexes of benzene with acrolein and ethene reveal that pi ... pi interactions to electron deficient acrolein are remarkably similar to those found in the benzene dimer.