Aromaticity switching by quantum tunnelling

2025/01/01 by Sindy Julieth Rodríguez, Julián Santoyo-Flores, Katarzyna Młodzikowska‐Pieńko +2 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5sc05717e

Abstract

unusually fast carbon tunnelling. If these systems can be prepared in a coherent regime, the quantum superposition between the original states would delocalise their nuclear wavefunctions in a state that we describe as a "Schrödinger's aromaticity cat."

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