Shaping of a conformationally flexible molecular structure for spectroscopy

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3174-3179

  Rijs, Anouk M ^d   Crews, Bridgit O ^a   De Vries, Mattanjah S ^a   Hannam, Jeffrey S ^b   Leigh, David A ^b   Fanti, Marianna ^c   Zerbetto, Francesco ^c   Buma, Wybren J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformational flexibility; Laser spectroscopy; Molecular devices; Molecular modeling; Rotaxanes

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MOLDS; PHOTORESISTS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

CONFORMATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DEVICES; MOLECULAR MODELING; ROTAXANES;

MOLECULES;

EID: 53549089305     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200705627     Document Type: Article

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