Structures and vibrations of p-dimethoxybenzene conformers in the S0 and S1 states studied by ab initio calculations and resonant two-photon ionization spectroscopy

Journal of Molecular Structure

Volumn 448, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-100

  Tzeng, W B ^a   Narayanan, K ^a   Hsieh, C Y ^b   Tung, C C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Conformer; Electronically excited state; p Dimethoxybenzene; Structure; Vibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032490681     PISSN: 00222860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2860(98)00372-X     Document Type: Article

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