New Light on an Old Story: the Solid State Transformation of Ammonium Cyanate into Urea

Jack D. Dunitz*, Kenneth D. M. Harris#, Roy L. Johnston#, Benson M. Kariuki#, Elizabeth J. MacLean%, Katerina Psallidas#, W. Bernd Schweizer* and Rik R. Tykwinski+

*Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

#School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K.

%Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD, U.K.

+Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada.

Article: J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 13274-13275.


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