Tunnelling in carbonic acid
The cis , trans -conformer of carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3 ), generated by near-infrared radiation, undergoes an unreported quantum mechanical tunnelling rotamerization with half-lives in cryogenic matrices of 4–20 h, depending on temperature and host material.
Published in: | Chemical Communications |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2016
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6cc01756h http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/CC/C6CC01756H |
Summary: | The cis , trans -conformer of carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3 ), generated by near-infrared radiation, undergoes an unreported quantum mechanical tunnelling rotamerization with half-lives in cryogenic matrices of 4–20 h, depending on temperature and host material. |
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