Ab initio multiple cloning simulations of pyrrole photodissociation: TKER spectra and velocity map imaging

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3316-3325

  Makhov, Dmitry V ^a   Saita, Kenichiro ^a,d   Martinez, Todd J ^b,c   Shalashilin, Dmitrii V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; PHOTOLYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELECTRONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOLYSIS; PYRROLES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84921666639     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4cp04571h     Document Type: Article

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