CNDO/S calculations of the thermal dissociation of 1,2-dioxetan

1 January 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 17,p. 683-684
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39740000683

Abstract

CNDO/S Calculations, with configuration interaction between singly excited states, of the dissociation of 1,2-dioxetan to two formaldehyde molecules indicate a possible mechanism for the observed chemiluminescent nature of this process.

Keywords

CONFIGURATION
FORMALDEHYDE
CHEMILUMINESCENT
SINGLY
EXCITED
THERMAL DISSOCIATION
CNDO/S CALCULATIONS