Hydrogen‐Bonding Effects for the C–ON Bond Homolysis and Reformation Reactions of Alkoxyamines. Issue 5 (22nd December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bagryanskaya, Elena G.; Brémond, Paul; Butscher, Teddy; Marque, Sylvain R. A.; Parkhomenko, Dmitry; Roubaud, Valérie; Siri, Didier; Viel, Stéphane
• Is Part Of: Macromolecular chemistry and physics. Volume 216:Issue 5(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 475
• Page End: 488
• Publication Date: 2014-12-22
• Subjects: Polymers -- Periodicals; Polymerization -- Periodicals; Synthetic products -- Periodicals; Macromolecules -- Periodicals; 547.7
• DOI: 10.1002/macp.201400438
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1022-1352

Abstract

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