Ground and excited state intramolecular
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Xiaofeng Duan; Steve Scheiner
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Molecular orbital calculations reveal that the keto tautomer of HOCHCHNHNCHz, unlike the enol, does not represent a minimum in the ground state proton transfer potential. Excitation to the first excited singlet or triplet state leads to a rapid and barrierless transfer to the keto which becomes stro