David M. Birney

Transition structures of the Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction of butadiene with acrolein. The origins of selectivity

David M. Birney, K. N. Houk · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1990 · 197 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Catalysis +9

An ab Initio Study of the Reactivity of Formylketene. Pseudopericyclic Reactions Revisited

David M. Birney, P. Eugene Wagenseller · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1994 · 150 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry +12

Pericyclic and Pseudopericyclic Thermal Cheletropic Decarbonylations:  When Can a Pericyclic Reaction Have a Planar, Pseudopericyclic Transition State?¹

David M. Birney, Sihyun Ham, Gregory R. Unruh · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1997 · 137 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Computational Chemistry +16

Further Pseudopericyclic Reactions:  An <i>ab Initio</i> Study of the Conformations and Reactions of 5-Oxo-2,4-pentadienal and Related Molecules

David M. Birney · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1996 · 108 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry +5

[1,3], [3,3], and [3,5] Sigmatropic Rearrangements of Esters Are Pseudopericyclic

David M. Birney, Xiaolian Xu, Sihyun Ham · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 1999 · 93 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Computational Chemistry +12