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SUBMITTER: Tsuji Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4743817 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tsuji Yuta Y Hoffmann Roald R Strange Mikkel M Solomon Gemma C GC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160111 4
An empirical observation of a relationship between a striking feature of electronic transmission through a π-system, destructive quantum interference (QI), on one hand, and the stability of diradicals on the other, leads to the proof of a general theorem that relates the two. Subject to a number of simplifying assumptions, in a π-electron system, QI occurs when electrodes are attached to those positions of an N-carbon atom N-electron closed-shell hydrocarbon where the matrix elements of the Gree ...[more]