Solvent complexes of jet-cooled β-phenylethylamine
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Construction and Systematical Symmetric Studies of a Series of Supramolecular Clusters with Binary or Ternary Ammonium Triphenylacetates
Published on: February 15, 2016
1Chemistry Department, Tulane University, 70118, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Abstract:
Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy was used to investigate β-phenylethylamine molecules that were cooled via supersonic gas expansions. The bare molecule spectra reveal 0-0 transitions that can be attributed to four separate conformers. Upon the addition of water or alcohol solvents, a series of new peaks is induced that appear to be built off separate bare molecule transitions. This is a pattern that is markedly different from the one seen for solvent addition to tyramine, which includes an-OH in the para position. As a result, definite hypotheses can be made to explain the influence of the para-OH in affecting solvent induced conformations.
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