Conformationally controlled chemistry: Excited-state dynamics dictate ground-state reaction

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5818, 2007, Pages 1561-1565

  Kim, Myung Hwa ^a,b   Shen, Lei ^a   Tao, Hongli ^c   Martinez, Todd J ^c   Suits, Arthur G ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; HYDROGEN; PROPIONALDEHYDE;

CATION; HYDROGEN; KINETIC ENERGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIS ISOMER; CONFORMATION; DISSOCIATION; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; GROUND STATE REACTION; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33947369365     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136453     Document Type: Article

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