Spectroscopic tracking of structural evolution in ultrafast stilbene photoisomerization

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5904, 2008, Pages 1073-1077

  Takeuchi, Satoshi ^a   Ruhman, Sanford ^b   Tsuneda, Takao ^c   Chiba, Mahito ^d   Taketsugu, Tetsuya ^e   Tahara, Tahei ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STILBENE;

EVOLUTION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 56449126908     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160902     Document Type: Article

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31. This work was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Science Research on Priority Area (no. 19056009) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. S.T. acknowledges financial support by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (no. 19350017) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). T. Tahara and S.R. acknowledge the JSPS invitation fellowship program.