Internal rotations of aromatic polyamides: A density functional theory study

Journal of Molecular Structure

Volumn 741, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 221-228

  Nishikawa, Joe ^a   Imase, Tatsuya ^a   Koike, Masao ^a   Fukuda, Kaoru ^a   Tokita, Masatoshi ^a   Watanabe, Junji ^a   Kawauchi, Susumu ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatic amide; Chain persistence length; Conformational analysis; Density functional theory; Internal rotation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; POLYESTERS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AROMATIC POLYAMIDES; PHENYL BENZOATE (PB); POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE (PES);

POLYAMIDES;

EID: 17844369731     PISSN: 00222860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2005.01.070     Document Type: Article

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