Ultrafast carbon-carbon single-bond rotational isomerization in room-temperature solution

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5795, 2006, Pages 1951-1955

  Zheng, Junrong ^a   Kwak, Kyungwon ^a   Xie, Jia ^a   Fayer, M D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; DERIVATIVES; ETHANE; ISOMERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROTATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

INFRARED VIBRATION; SINGLE BOND; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; TIME CONSTANTS;

CARBON;

1 FLUORO 2 ISOCYANATOETHANE; BUTANE; ETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; CHEMICAL BONDING; ETHANE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIPOLE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33749368925     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132178     Document Type: Article

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