Intramolecular charge transfer and dual fluorescence of 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile: Ultrafast branching followed by a two-fold decay mechanism

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 15182-15188

  Coto, Pedro B ^a   Serrano Andrés, Luis ^b   Gustavsson, Thomas ^c   Fujiwara, Takashige ^d   Lim, Edward C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c DIF   (France)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 DIMETHYLAMINOBENZONITRILE; 4-(N,N-DIMETHYLAMINO)BENZONITRILE; NITRILE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TIME;

FLUORESCENCE; NITRILES; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051765324     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp21089k     Document Type: Article

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