The nature of tunnel splitting mediated by stacked aromatics

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 104, Issue 32, 2000, Pages 7593-7599

  Lee, Mikyung ^a   Shephard, Michael J ^b   Risser, Steven M ^c   Priyadarshy, Satyani ^a   Paddon Row, Michael N ^b   Beratan, David N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BENZENE; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

COMPLETE NEGLECT OF DIFFERENTIAL OVERLAP; NEAREST NEIGHBOR INTER RING ORBITAL INTERACTION; STACKED AROMATICS; TETRACYANOETHYLENE; TUNNEL SPLITTING; UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034251425     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp994372+     Document Type: Article

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