Identification of new dimers of formic acid: The use of a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator in matrix isolation experiments

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 695-699

  Marushkevich, Kseniya ^a   Siltanen, Mikael ^a   Räsänen, Markku ^a   Halonen, Lauri ^a   Khriachtchev, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ARGON MATRICES; CIS STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; HIGH-POWER; IN-VACUUM; MATRIX; MATRIX ISOLATION EXPERIMENTS; NARROW BANDS; SOLID MATRIXES; THERMAL-ANNEALING; VIBRATIONAL EXCITATION;

CALCULATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FORMIC ACID; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 79953803835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2001858     Document Type: Article

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