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Inside Cover: High‐Resolution Electronic Spectroscopy Studies of meta ‐Aminobenzoic Acid in the Gas Phase Reveal the Origins of its Solvatochromic Behavior (ChemPhysChem 10/2011)
Author(s) -
Fleisher Adam J.,
Morgan Philip J.,
Pratt David W.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.201190050
Subject(s) - solvatochromism , excited state , chemistry , chemical physics , dipole , ground state , gas phase , spectroscopy , acceptor , photochemistry , conformational isomerism , excitation , molecular physics , computational chemistry , atomic physics , physics , organic chemistry , condensed matter physics , molecule , quantum mechanics
Measurements of the ground‐ and excited‐state dipole moments of meta‐aminobenzoic acid reveal the existence of push‐pull charge reorganization upon UV excitation. The nature of this donor–acceptor interaction is also rotamer‐specific, as shown on p. 1808 by D. W. Pratt et al.