Showcasing research from Professor Yukihiro Ozaki, Kwansei Gakuin University, Professor Mirosław Czarnecki, University of Wrocław, and Professor Yusuke Morisawa, Kindai University.

Solvent effect on the competition between weak and strong interactions in phenol solutions studied by near-infrared spectroscopy and DFT calculations

Phenol has interactions like OHOH and OH. NIR

spectroscopy was used to investigate them. In aromatic

solvents the OH interactions play an important role.

Depending on the concentration, in cyclohexane solutions

free OH and OH in the OHOH interactions are present.

In the aromatic solvents the OHOH interactions compete

with the OH. Consequently, the associates of phenol

in aromatic solvents are shorter compared with those in

non-aromatic ones.

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See Mirosław Antoni Czarnecki, Yusuke Morisawa, Yukihiro Ozaki et al ., Phys . Chem . Chem . Phys ., 2021, 23 , 19188.

PAPER Morgane Vacher et al . cis trans photoisomerisation of azobenzene: a fresh

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PCCPPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volume 23

Number 35

21 September 2021

Pages 19087–19924