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Canadian Journal of Chemistry

Volume 83, Number 9, September 2005
ISSN 1480-3291

This issue is focussed on organic reaction mechanisms, particularly to celebrate the distinguished contributions of Canada's physical organic chemists to the study of reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry

Physical organic chemistry in Canada 1900–2005
Thomas T. Tidwell
Pages 1197-1201
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Kinetics and mechanism of acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the diazo functional groups of 1-diazo-2-indanone and 2-diazo-1-indanone in aqueous solution
Yvonne Chiang, A.Jerry Kresge, Oleg Sadovski, Xiaofeng Zeng, and Yu Zhu
Pages 1202-1206
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The art of discovery in biophysical organic chemistry
Edward M. Kosower
Pages 1207-1211
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Kinetics and mechanism of the oxidation of alcohols by tetrapropylammonium perruthenate
W.David Chandler, Zhao Wang, and Donald G. Lee
Pages 1212-1221
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The remarkable effect of 7-amino substituents on the reactivity of 4-nitrobenzofurazans with nucleophiles
Michael R. Crampton, Chukwuemeka Isanbor, and Thomas C. Willett
Pages 1222-1227
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The fragmentation of 7-norbornyloxychlorocarbene — S_Ni-like transition states
Robert A. Moss, Xiaolin Fu, and Ronald R. Sauers
Pages 1228-1236
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The structure, photochemical reactivity, and photophysical properties of adamantyl X-substituted aryl ethers and a comparison with the alkyl groups, methyl, tert-butyl, and allyl
A.L. Pincock and J.A. Pincock
Pages 1237-1252
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Kinetics of glycoluril template-directed Claisen condensations — Effect of thionation of the glycoluril
Karen Kam, Mohammad Rahimizadeh, Robert S. McDonald, Paul HM Harrison, Hao Chen, Stephen I. Jenkins, and Adrienne Pedrech
Pages 1253-1260
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Ambident reactivity of phenoxyl radicals in DNA adduction
Richard A. Manderville
Pages 1261-1267
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Acceleration of the methanolysis of phosphate diesters promoted by La(OTf)₃ — The analysis of non-integer pH/rate profiles resulting from changes in metal ion speciation
Graham TT Gibson, Alexei A. Neverov, Allen Chun-Tien Teng, and R.S. Brown
Pages 1268-1276
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Deuterium labeling as a test of intramolecular hydride mechanisms in the fragmentation of 2-(1-hydroxybenzyl)-N1′-methylthiamin
Glenn Ikeda and Ronald Kluger
Pages 1277-1280
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Hydrolysis of aryl hydrogen maleate esters mediated by cyclodextrins — Effect on the intramolecular catalysis
Gabriel O. Andrés, O.Fernando Silva, and Rita H. de Rossi
Pages 1281-1286
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The aromatic character and resonance stabilization energies of substituted cyclopentadienyl and indenyl cations
J.A. Pincock and A.WH Speed
Pages 1287-1298
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An ab initio study of 1,5-suprafacial shifts in 5-substituted 1,3-cyclopentadienes
Cory C. Pye and Raymond A. Poirier
Pages 1299-1305
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Solvolysis and ring closure of quinone methides photogenerated from biaryl systems
Yijian Shi and Peter Wan
Pages 1306-1323
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Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of the photochemistry of some diphenylgermylene (Ph₂Ge:) precursors
Cameron R. Harrington, William J. Leigh, Bryan K. Chan, Peter P. Gaspar, and Dong Zhou
Pages 1324-1338
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Kinetic isotope effect evidence for the concerted transfer of hydride and proton from hydroxycyclopentadienyl ruthenium hydride in solvents of different polarities and hydrogen bonding ability
Charles P. Casey and Jeffrey B. Johnson
Pages 1339-1346
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Photochemical generation and ¹H NMR detection of alkyl allene oxides in solution
Leah E. Breen, Norman P. Schepp, and C-H Edmund Tan
Pages 1347-1351
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Bicyclo[3.2.0]hepta-1,3,6-triene — UV photoelectron spectroscopic and computational studies
T.Bajorek and N.H. Werstiuk
Pages 1352-1359
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Reactions of acetoxy(methylthio)carbene and S-methyl thiopyruvate
Arkadiusz Klys, Wojciech Czardybon, John Warkentin, and Nick Henry Werstiuk
Pages 1360-1364
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Effect of modification of the electrophilic center on the α effect
Ik-Hwan Um, Ji-Youn Lee, Sun-Young Bae, and Erwin Buncel
Pages 1365-1371
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Computational studies of the properties of phenyloxenium ions — A comparison with phenylnitrenium and phenylcarbenium ions
Stephen A. Glover and Michael Novak
Pages 1372-1381
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The role of molecular geometry in the Wolff rearrangement of α-diazocarbonyl compounds — Conformational control or structural constraints?
Vladimir V. Popik
Pages 1382-1390
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A comparison of the mechanisms of hydrolysis of benzimidates, esters, and amides in sulfuric acid media
Robin A. Cox
Pages 1391-1399
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Scientific genealogies of physical and mechanistic organic chemists
John Andraos
Pages 1400-1414
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Reaction intermediates in organic chemistry — The “big picture”
John Andraos
Pages 1415-1431
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Competitive endo- and exo-cyclic C–N fission in the hydrolysis of N-aroyl β-lactams
Wing Y. Tsang, Naveed Ahmed, Karl Hemming, and Michael I. Page
Pages 1432-1439
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A temperature-annealing effect on the host–guest complexation with γ-cyclodextrin
P.John Wright and Cornelia Bohne
Pages 1440-1447
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Dissociation of the phenanthroimidazole dimer — A highly delocalized radical — Gomberg revisited
Eric Kiepek, Yuhui Zhou, Shmaryahu Hoz, Ester Rozental, Peter M. Kazmaier, and Erwin Buncel
Pages 1448-1459
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Photochemistry of 9-methylbicyclo[3.3.1]nonyl aryl ketones — A novel 1,5-disproportionation of 1,4-hydroxy biradicals and asymmetric induction using the solid-state ionic chiral auxiliary method
Shuang Chen, Brian O. Patrick, and John R. Scheffer
Pages 1460-1472
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Regioselective S—O vs. C—O bond cleavage in sulfenate ester radical anions
Donald LB Stringle and Mark S. Workentin
Pages 1473-1482
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The mechanisms of hydrolysis of alkyl N-alkylthioncarbamate esters at 100 °C
Eduardo Humeres, Maria de Nazaré M. Sanchez, Conceição ML Lobato, Nito A. Debacher, and Eduardo P. de Souza
Pages 1483-1491
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The HERON reaction — Origin, theoretical background, and prevalence
Stephen A. Glover, Arvi Rauk, Jeanne M. Buccigross, John J. Campbell, Gerard P. Hammond, Guoning Mo, Luke E. Andrews, and Ashley-Mae E. Gillson
Pages 1492-1509
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Deuterium kinetic isotope effects on the thermal isomerizations of deuteriocyclopropane to deuterium-labeled propenes
John E. Baldwin and Stephanie R. Singer
Pages 1510-1515
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The kinetics of the spontaneous, proton- and Al^III-catalysed hydrolysis of 1,5-anhydrocellobiitol — Models for cellulose depolymerization in paper aging and alkaline pulping, and a benchmark for cellulase efficiency
John William Baty and Michael L. Sinnott
Pages 1516-1524
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Benzenesulfonyl chloride with primary and secondary amines in aqueous media — Unexpected high conversions to sulfonamides at high pH
James F. King, Manjinder S. Gill, and Petru Ciubotaru
Pages 1525-1535
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Formation and stability of organic zwitterions — The carbon acid pK_as of the trimethylsulfonium and tetramethylphosphonium cations in water
Ana Rios, AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue, Tina L. Amyes, and John P. Richard
Pages 1536-1542
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Synthesis of novel sulfonyl-stabilized phosphorus ylides, and the kinetics and mechanism of their conventional and flash vacuum pyrolysis reactions
Rasha F. Al-Bashir, Nouria A. Al-Awadi, and Osman ME El-Dusouqui
Pages 1543-1553
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Comparison of the nucleophilicities of alcohols and alkoxides
Thanh Binh Phan and Herbert Mayr
Pages 1554-1560
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Acid enol and dihydropyridine intermediates in pyridylketene hydration — A computational study
Andrei V. Fedorov, Katayoun Najafian, Thomas T. Tidwell, and Sinisa Vukovic
Pages 1561-1567
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The addition of alkynes to a tetrasilyldisilene — Evidence for a biradical intermediate
Stephen E. Gottschling, Michael C. Jennings, and Kim M. Baines
Pages 1568-1576
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Mechanism of the lithium–iodine exchange in an iodothiophene
Hans J. Reich and Wesley L. Whipple
Pages 1577-1587
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Influence of the number of water molecules on the mechanism of N-sulfinylaniline hydrolysis
Elena V. Ivanova and Heidi M. Muchall
Pages 1588-1596
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S_N2 and S_N2′ reaction dynamics of cyclopropenyl chloride with halide ion — A direct ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) study
Hiroto Tachikawa
Pages 1597-1605
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Linear free energy relationship and kinetic isotope effects as measures for the transition-state variation — A case of the neophyl system
Salai Cheettu Ammal and Hiroshi Yamataka
Pages 1606-1614
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A computational study of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction mechanism for nitrilimines
Robert C. Mawhinney, Heidi M. Muchall, and Gilles H. Peslherbe
Pages 1615-1625
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Pople, Schneider, and Bernstein — A truly seminal treatise of NMR
John D. Roberts
Pages 1626-1628
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Intramolecular general acid catalysis of sulfate transfer — Nucleophilic attack by oxyanions on the SO₃^– group
Anthony J. Kirby, José Carlos Gesser, Florian Hollfelder, Jacks P. Priebe, and Faruk Nome
Pages 1629-1636
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Dynamics of the transient species generated upon photolysis of diarylmethanes within zeolites — Deprotonation and oxidation reactions
Suzanne Shea, Norman P. Schepp, Amy E. Keirstead, and Frances L. Cozens
Pages 1637-1648
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Valence bond calculations on the transition state for the E2 reaction of fluoride ion with ethyl fluoride — Implications for the More O'Ferrall – Jencks diagram
Wei Wu, Sason Shaik, and William H. Saunders, Jr.
Pages 1649-1653
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Elimination reactions – Calculation of rate constants from equilibrium constants and distortion energies by means of no barrier theory
J.Peter Guthrie, Leonardo Leandro, and Vladimir Pitchko
Pages 1654-1666
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On the displacement reactions of organic substances in water
J.MW Scott
Pages 1667-1719
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