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Inside Back Cover: Ultrafast Solvent‐Assisted Electronic Level Crossing in 1‐Naphthol (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 27/2013)
Author(s) -
Messina Fabrizio,
PrémontSchwarz Mirabelle,
Braem Olivier,
Xiao Dequan,
Batista Victor S.,
Nibbering Erik T. J.,
Chergui Majed
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201304256
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , ultrashort pulse , int , solvent , 1 naphthol , chemistry , photochemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , physics , organic chemistry , optics , computer science , engineering , laser , operating system , mechanical engineering
Photoacidic properties of the prototypical molecule 1‐naphthol have long been claimed to involve an inversion between the two first‐excited singlet states, controlled by the polarity of the solvent. In their Communication on page 6871 ff., E. T. J. Nibbering, M. Chergui, et al. address the non‐adiabatic excited‐state dynamics of 1‐naphthol with femtosecond time resolution and report the first direct experimental observation of the ultrafast level inversion.