Excited Slate Geometry

Figure 4.19 Ground slate and excited state geometry of formaldehyde molecule.

Figure 6.16. The funnel region for butadiene isomerization a) cross section of the excited-slate potential energy surface for fi = a, where a, and a, correspond to rotations about the two C=C bonds of butadiene and p lo rotation about the single bond and b) optimized geometries of the three points of minimal energy within the funnel (by permission from Olivucci et al., 1993).

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