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ChemInform Abstract: Picosecond Photoisomerization and Rotational Reorientation Dynamics in Solution.

M. LEE, Angus J. Bain, Peter McCarthy, Chao Han, John N. Haseltine, Amos B. Smith, Robin M. Hochstrasser

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Abstract The trans‐cis isomerization rates of stiff‐diphenylbutadiene (I) in n‐alkane solvents are measured using single photon counting methods and the rotational reorientation times τR for (I) and trans‐stilbene are obtained by picosecond polarization spectroscopy.

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Key concepts: Photoisomerization, Chemistry, Picosecond, Isomerization, Photochemistry, Polarization (electrochemistry), Dynamics (music), Spectroscopy