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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

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Hot Article: Seven conformers of L-threonine in the gas phase: a LA-MB-FTMW study

30 October 2008

José Alonso and colleagues review some of their work on characterizing the conformers of natural amino acids.


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Hot Article: Probing the dynamics of polyatomic multichannel elementary reactions by crossed molecular beam experiments with soft electron-ionization mass spectrometric detection

12 November 2008

Piergiorgio Casavecchia and colleagues highlight developments in the field of chemical reaction dynamics.


An antisymmetric vibration stimulated by a slope on the potential indicates a broken symmetry at the last conical intersection (CI)

Hot Paper: Cyclohexadiene ring opening observed with 13 fs resolution: Coherent oscillations confirm the reaction path

06 November 2008

In this paper, Fuß and co-workers use femtosecond Ti-sapphire laser pulses to probe the ring opening of cyclohexadiene.


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Hot Article: Collapse transition in proteins

14 November 2008

In this Perspective article, Gilad Haran and colleagues describe the basics of the collapse transition, starting with homopolymers and continuing with proteins.


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Hot Article: Spectroscopy and conformational preferences of gas-phase helices

06 November 2008

In this paper, Thomas Rizzo and colleagues report the spectroscopy of two heilcal peptides.


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Hot Article: Vibrational exciton coupling as a probe for phase transitions and shape changes of fluoroform aerosol particles

12 November 2008

Ruth Signorell and colleagues study the phase behavior and associated shape changes of fluoroform aerosol particles.



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