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Microwave-assisted Intramolecular Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Reactions for the Synthesis of Functionalized Naphthalenes/Solvatochromic Dyes
Published on: April 1, 2013
Structure of the naphthalene dimer from rare gas tagging
Carine Gilliéron1, Neeraj Sharma, Klaas Nauta
1School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Abstract:
Excitation spectra of naphthalene dimer-argonn (n = 1-3) clusters are obtained by resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopy. The spectra are generally independent of the number of attached argon atoms and reveal sharp structures which are fitted by superimposing independent monomer spectra. It is concluded that the rare-gas tagging technique reveals the presence of a T-shaped naphthalene dimer chromophore in the molecular beam.
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