Dark structures in molecular radiationless transitions determined by ultrafast diffraction

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5709, 2005, Pages 558-563

  Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a   Feenstra, Jonathan S ^a   Park, Sang Tae ^a   Xu, Shoujun ^a,b   Zewail, Ahmed H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; GROUND STATE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RADIATION;

EXCITED STATE; MOLECULAR SUBSTITUTION; TRANSIENT STRUCTURES; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RING OPENING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 12944273297     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107291     Document Type: Article

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