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Paradigms and paradoxes: Energetics of the oxidative cleavage of indigo and of other olefins

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Indigo is a unique organic compound in terms of its blue color and its multiple conjugated functional groups contained therein. We ask whether the enthalpy of its cleavage reaction into two isatin molecules reflects the novelty of either this color and/or the conjugated functionalities contained therein.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Graduate Center and The City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA

    Aaron T. Frank, Adebogun Adenike, David Aebisher & Alexander Greer

  2. Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, 39217, USA

    Ruomei Gao

  3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA

    Joel F. Liebman

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Frank, A.T., Adenike, A., Aebisher, D. et al. Paradigms and paradoxes: Energetics of the oxidative cleavage of indigo and of other olefins. Struct Chem 18, 71–74 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-006-9126-x

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