Surface hopping excited-state dynamics study of the photoisomerization of a light-driven fluorene molecular rotary motor

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2189-2199

  Kazaryan, Andranik ^a   Lan, Zhenggang ^b   Schäfer, Lars V ^c   Thiel, Walter ^b   Filatov, Michael ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 79960218292     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct200199w     Document Type: Article

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