Effect of fluorine substitution on the p
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Fabio Pichierri
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The effect of fluorine substitution on the proton transfer barrier (DE PT ) of malonaldehyde (1) has been investigated with the aid of density functional theory (DFT) calculations carried out at the B3LYP/cc-pVTZ level of theory. The results indicate that fluorine substitution in 1 increases the ene