Oxyallyl Exposed: An Open-Shell Singlet with Picosecond Lifetimes in Solution but Persistent in Crystals of a Cyclobutanedione Precursor

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2342-2345

  Kuzmanich, Gregory ^a   Spänig, Fabian ^b   Tsai, Chao Kuan ^a   Um, Joann M ^a   Hoekstra, Ryan M ^a   Houk, K N ^a   Guldi, Dirk M ^b   Garcia Garibay, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS SETS; CAS-SCF; COUPLED-CLUSTER CALCULATIONS; CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS; DECARBONYLATIONS; DEEP BLUE; ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM; FEMTOSECOND PUMPS; MULTI REFERENCE; OPEN-SHELL; PHOTO-INDUCED; PICOSECONDS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; OXYALLYL; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; SPIROCYCLOHEXYLCYCLOBUTANEDIONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARBONYLATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HALF LIFE TIME; PRECURSOR; SOLID STATE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECIES; SPECTROSCOPY;

BUTANONES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952266044     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja109494b     Document Type: Article

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