Photochemistry of hydrogen-bonded aromatic pairs: Quantum dynamical calculations for the pyrrole-pyridine complex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 12707-12712

  Lan, Zhenggang ^a   Frutos, Luis Manuel ^a,c   Sobolewski, Andrzej L ^b   Domcke, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conical intersection; Excited state hydrogen transfer; Nonadiabatic transition

Indexed keywords

PYRIDINE; PYRROLE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; DYNAMICS; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIBRATION;

ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN BONDING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PYRIDINES; PYRROLES; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 51349128710     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801062105     Document Type: Article

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