Macrocyclic high-spin (S = 2) molecule: Spin identification of a sterically rigid metacyclophane-based nitroxide tetraradical by two-dimensional electron spin transient nutation spectroscopy

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3988-3990

  Sawai, Takatoshi ^a   Sato, Kazunobu ^a   Ise, Tomoaki ^a   Shiomi, Daisuke ^a   Toyota, Kazuo ^a   Morita, Yasushi ^b   Takui, Takeji ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron spin transient nutation; EPR spectroscopy; High spin systems; Macrocycles; Radicals

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRONS; MECHANISMS; PHOTORESISTS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

ELECTRON SPIN TRANSIENT NUTATION; EPR SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH-SPIN SYSTEMS; MACROCYCLES; RADICALS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 53549107773     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200705583     Document Type: Article

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