An ab initio MO study of the photochromic reaction of dithienylethenes

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 106, Issue 31, 2002, Pages 7222-7227

  Guillaumont, Dominique ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a   Kanda, Katsuya ^a   Miyasaka, Hiroshi ^b   Uchida, Kingo ^c   Kobatake, Seiya ^d   Shibata, Katsunori ^d   Nakamura, Shinichiro ^a   Irie, Masahiro ^d  

^a MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; MOLECULES; PHOTOCHROMISM; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUANTUM THEORY; REACTION KINETICS;

QUANTUM YIELD;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 0037044036     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp021060p     Document Type: Article

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