Catalysis of symmetry-restricted reactions by transition metal compounds. Valence isomerization of cubane

L Cassar, PE Eaton, J Halpern

文献索引：Cassar,L. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970 , vol. 92, # 11 p. 3515 - 3518

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摘要

The remarkable thermal stability of the highly strained cubane molecule presumably reflects the constraints of the Woodward-Hoffniann orbital symmetry conservation rules,* according to which the rearrangements represented by eq 1 and 2 are thermally" forbidden." The role of transition metals in catalyzing such symmetry-restricted processes is a subject of great current interest, and our results have an important bearing upon the interpretation of ...