Chemical 'double silts': Dynamical interference of photodissociation pathways in water

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5431, 1999, Pages 1249-1253

  Dixon, R N ^a   Hwang, D W ^b   Yang, X F ^b,c   Harich, S ^b   Lin, J J ^b   Yang, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

RYDBERG TAGGING TECHNIQUES;

WATER;

EID: 0033587803     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5431.1249     Document Type: Article

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23. R.N.D. is grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for the award of an Emeritus Research Fellowship. The experimental work was done at IAMS, supported by the National Science Council and the Academia Sinica of the Republic of China. X.Y. wishes to thank Y. T. Lee and K. Liu for helpful discussions.