Conformational flexibility of a rotaxane thread probed by electronic spectroscopy in helium nanodroplets

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 12902-12903

  Smolarek, Szymon ^a   Rijs, Anouk M ^b   Hannam, Jeffrey S ^c   Leigh, David A ^c   Drabbels, Marcel ^d   Buma, Wybren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HELIUM NANODROPLETS; MOLECULAR ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CALCULATION; NANODROPLET; PHONON RESONANCE; ROTAXANES; SINGLE MOLECULE; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; SUCCINAMIDE;

ABSORPTION; CONFORMATIONS; DISSOLUTION; HELIUM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

DIMER; HELIUM; NANOPARTICLE; ROTAXANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHONON; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70349088228     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja905973v     Document Type: Article

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