Metilhidroxicarbeno: control de túnel de una reacción química

Peter R Schreiner1, Hans Peter Reisenauer, David Ley

  • 1Institute of Organic Chemistry, Justus-Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, D-35392 Giessen, Germany. prs@org.chemie.uni-giessen.de

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 11, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

El túnel mecánico cuántico permite a las reacciones eludir el control cinético tradicional, favoreciendo a los productos a través de vías de energía más altas. Este fenómeno se observó en la isomerización del metilhidroxicarbeno, lo que demuestra el túnel de túnel.

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