Evolution has ensured that plants and animals have developed effective protection
mechanisms against the potentially harmful effects of incident ultraviolet radiation (UVR) …

The last few years have seen a surge in interest (both theoretical and experimental) in the
photochemistry of heteroaromatic molecules (eg azoles, phenols), which has served to …

High-resolution measurements of the kinetic energies of hydrogen atom fragments formed
during ultraviolet photolysis of imidazole, pyrrole, and phenol in the gas phase confirm that …

Using recently developed full-dimensional coupled quasi-diabatic ab initio potential energy
surfaces including four electronic (1ππ, 1ππ*, 11πσ*, and 21πσ*) states, the tunneling …

This Perspective addresses the use of coupled diabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs)
together with rigorous quantum dynamics in full or reduced dimensional coordinate spaces …

The fragmentation dynamics of gas phase phenol molecules following excitation at many
wavelengths in the range 279.145⩾ λ phot⩾ 206.00 nm have been investigated by H …

The understanding of molecular structure and function is at the very heart of the chemical
and molecular sciences. Experiments that allow for the creation of structurally pure samples …

High-resolution time-of-flight measurements of H atom products from photolysis of phenol, 4-
methylphenol, 4-fluorophenol, and thiophenol, at many UV wavelengths (λphot), have …

The excited-state dynamics of phenol following ultraviolet (UV) irradiation have received
considerable interest in recent years, most notably because they can provide a model for …

When phenol is photoexcited to its S 1 (1 1 ππ*) state at wavelengths in the range
257.403≤ λ phot≤ 275.133 nm the O− H bond dissociates to yield an H atom and a …