No straight path: Roaming in both ground- and excited-state photolytic channels of NO3→NO + 02

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6072, 2012, Pages 1075-1078

  Grubb, Michael P ^a   Warter, Michelle L ^a   Xiao, Hongyan ^b   Maeda, Satoshi ^b,c   Morokuma, Keiji ^b,d   North, Simon W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NITRATE; NITROUS OXIDE;

CHEMICAL METHOD; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRON; NITROUS OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRONICS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84857672106     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1216911     Document Type: Article

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