Structural dynamics in floppy systems: Ultrafast conformeric motions in rydberg-excited triethylamine

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1804-1809

  Deb, Sanghamitra ^a   Bayes, Brian A ^a,b   Minitti, Michael P ^a   Weber, Peter M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; CONFORMERIC STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; FINGERPRINT SPECTRA; FLOPPY SYSTEMS; HIGH ENERGY; NITROGEN BONDS; NONEQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION; POTENTIAL ENERGY LANDSCAPES; RYDBERG; RYDBERG ELECTRON; SUBPICOSECOND TIME SCALE; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-RESOLVED; TRIETHYLAMINES; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE;

EXCITED STATES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; PULSE GENERATORS; RYDBERG STATES; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BINDING ENERGY;

BUTYLAMINE; ETHYLAMINE; N,N DIMETHYL 2 BUTANAMINE; N,N-DIMETHYL-2-BUTANAMINE; TRIETHYLAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; KINETICS; MOTION; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BUTYLAMINES; ETHYLAMINES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79952583193     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp110905h     Document Type: Article

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