Inside Cover: Control of Intramolecular Orbital Alignment in the Photodissociation of Thiophenol: Conformational Manipulation by Chemical Substitution (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 10/2008)

✍ Scribed by Jeong Sik Lim; Yoon Sup Lee; Sang Kyu Kim

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 406 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200890036

✦ Synopsis

Conformational control by chemical substitution influences the content of the wavepacket propagating along the SÀH coordinate of thiophenol. The wide spread of the wavepacket at the conical intersection, induced by the conformation of the SÀH torsional angle, diminishes the probability of diabatic passage, thus giving control over the branching ratio of excited and ground states of product. In the Communication on page 1853 ff., S. K. Kim and co-workers describe this approach to control intramolecular orbital alignment for the phenylthiyl radical.