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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sci China Chem. 2010 Jan 1;53(1):61–70. doi: 10.1007/s11426-010-0020-4

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Cycloaddition rates are dependent on the nitrile imine HOMO energies. (a) Reaction scheme; (b) Plot of HOMO energies vs. Log(rate). The HOMO energies of the nitrile imines were calculated using Hartree-Fock 3–21G model based on the AM1 optimized geometries.