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Conformational control over an aldehyde fragment by selective vibrational excitation of interchangeable remote
A J Lopes Jesus1, Cláudio M Nunes, Rui Fausto
1CQC, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535, Coimbra, Portugal. reva@qui.uc.pt.
Abstract:
We apply interchangeable vibrational antennas (OH or NH2 group) to achieve unprecedented conformational control over the heavy aldehyde fragment in 2-formyl-2H-azirine. The two aldehyde conformers were manipulated bi-directionally, using selective vibrational excitation with narrowband near-infrared (NIR) light tuned at the wavenumbers corresponding to OH and NH2 stretching overtones and combination modes.
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