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Enhanced hydrogen bonding induced by optical excitation: unexpected subnanosecond photoinduced dynamics in a
G W Wurpel1, A M Brouwer, I H van Stokkum
1Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, NL-1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands. fred@org.chem.uva.nl
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|November 8, 2001
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