A direct observation of a concerted two-bond breaking reaction

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3784-3785

  Ho, Jr Wei ^a   Chen, Wei Kan ^a   Cheng, Po Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 34247163182     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0684747     Document Type: Article

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17. 3 + SO at 200 nm, we estimated that the terminal relative speed of C-S separation is no greater than 5000 m/s. Therefore, it takes at least 50 fs to extend the C-S bond by 2.5 Å to become about 4.5 Å at which the bond can be considered as broken.