Conformations and photophysics of a stilbene dimer

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2003, Pages 8029-8034

  Ruseckas, Arvydas ^a,d   Namdas, Ebinazar B ^a   Lee, Jin Yong ^b   Mukamel, Shaul ^b   Wang, Shujun ^c   Bazan, Guillermo C ^c   Sundström, Villy ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE; GROUND STATE; ISOMERIZATION; PHOTONS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

DISTYRYL PARACYCLOPHANE; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; OPTICAL GAP; PHOTOPHYSICS; STILBENE DIMER; TETRAHYDROFURANE SOLUTION;

DIMERS;

EID: 0242270985     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp027536m     Document Type: Article

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