Proton tunneling in heterodimers of carboxylic acids: A rotational study of the benzoic acid-formic acid bimolecule

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 3770-3775

  Evangelisti, Luca ^a,b   Écija, Patricia ^a   Cocinero, Emilio J ^a   Castaño, Fernando ^a   Lesarri, Alberto ^c   Caminati, Walther ^b   Meyer, Rolf ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^d NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Excited States; Photochemistry; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; FORMIC ACID; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PROTON TRANSFER; SPECTROSCOPY;

DOUBLE PROTON TRANSFER; HETERODIMERS; ISOTOPOLOGUES; MICROWAVE SPECTRUM; PROTON TUNNELING; PULSED-JET FOURIER TRANSFORM; TUNNELING EFFECTS; TUNNELING SPLITTINGS;

BENZOIC ACID;

EID: 84871573356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3018489     Document Type: Article

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