title: Exotic Chemistry and Rational Organic Syntheses at 1000 °C.
abstract: Subliming organic compounds into a stream of nitrogen gas and passing the vapors rapidly through a very hot oven (flash vacuum pyrolysis) promotes high-temperature thermal reactions in the gas phase that are generally difficult to achieve in solution under ordinary laboratory conditions. Exploring, exposing, and exploiting gas-phase organic chemistry at temperatures of 1000 °C and above has uncovered some extraordinary reactions and led to some landmark syntheses.
authors.affiliation: Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College , Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467-3860, United States.|Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada , Reno, Nevada 89557-0020, United States.
authors.forename: Lawrence T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Scott