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Published April 30, 1999 | public
Journal Article

Femtosecond dynamics of retro Diels–Alder reactions: the concept of concertedness

Abstract

Using femtosecond-resolved mass spectrometry in a molecular beam, we report real-time studies of the retro Diels–Alder reactions of cyclohexene, norbornene and bicyclo[2,2,2]oct-2-ene. The experimental results and theoretical calculations elucidate the influence of conical intersections on ground-state reaction trajectories. We address the issue of concertedness on the actual time scale of the nuclear motion.

Additional Information

© 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. Received 18 February 1999, in final form 5 March 1999, available online 29 April 1999. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. SDF, a postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research–Flanders, acknowledges a Fulbright scholarship and financial support by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and by Caltech.

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