7-Hydroxyquinoline-8-carbaldehydes. 1. Ground- and excited-state long-range prototropic tautomerization

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 117, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 9127-9146

  Vetokhina, Volha ^a   Nowacki, Jacek ^b   Pietrzak, Mariusz ^a   Rode, Michał F ^c   Sobolewski, Andrzej L ^c   Waluk, Jacek ^a,d   Herbich, Jerzy ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d CARDINAL STEFAN WYSZY SKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

AB INITIO COMPUTATIONS; ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION; ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION SPECTRA; HYDROGEN ATOM TRANSFERS (HAT); QUANTUM CHEMICAL COMPUTATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTY; SYNTHETIC PRECURSORS; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD;

EXCITED STATES;

ALDEHYDE; QUINOLINOL DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ISOMERISM; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

ALDEHYDES; HYDROXYQUINOLINES; ISOMERISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLVENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84884960514     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp403621p     Document Type: Article

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