Quantitative chirality synchronization in trifluoroethanol dimers.
2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol molecules synchronize their transiently chiral gauche configurations upon dimerization in supersonic jet expansions, while they avoid an energetically competitive heteroconfigurational hydrogen bonded dimer topology predicted by extensive quantum chemical calculations.
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Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Häber
Thomas
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Suhm
Martin A
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D019281:Dimerization; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008433:Mathematics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D014270:Trifluoroethanol / Q000737:chemistry*
D014270:Trifluoroethanol