Vibronic origin of sulfur mass-independent isotope effect in photoexcitation of SO2 and the implications to the early earth's atmosphere

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17697-17702

  Whitehill, Andrew R ^a   Xie, Changjian ^b   Hu, Xixi ^b   Xie, Daiqian ^b   Guo, Hua ^c   Ono, Shuhei ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; ENERGY; FRACTIONATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; EXCITED ELECTRONIC STATES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACETYLENE; ATMOSPHERE; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPES; VIBRATION;

EID: 84887108585     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306979110     Document Type: Article

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