Chemistry: Separation and conversion dynamics of four nuclear spin isomers of ethylene

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5756, 2005, Pages 1938-1941

  Sun, Zhen Dong ^a   Takagi, Kojiro ^a   Matsushima, Fusakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; INFRARED RADIATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

DISCRETE SPIN ISOMERS; INVERSION SYMMETRY; SPIN CONVERSION;

ISOMERS;

ETHYLENE;

CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; INFRARED RADIATION; ISOMER; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 29344436651     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120037     Document Type: Article

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22. We express sincere thanks to P. L. Chapovsky for valuable guidance when he visited our laboratory. We thank P. L. Chapovsky and R. M. Lees for critical reading and commenting on the manuscript; T. Oka and J. T. Hougen for helpful discussions; Y. Moriwaki, K. Uehara, and group members for assistance in this work; and the anonymous referees for their insightful comments. Supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and grant-in-aid P04063 for JSPS Fellows from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan (Z.-D.S.).