Minimum energy paths in the excited and ground states of short protonated Schiff bases and of the analogous polyenes

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-116

  Garavelli, Marco ^a   Bernardi, Fernando ^a   Celani, Paolo ^b   Robb, Michael A ^b   Olivucci, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogous polyenes; Minimum energy paths; Schiff bases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032521738     PISSN: 10106030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-6030(98)00218-4     Document Type: Article

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