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We have investigated the dependence of the efficiency of electron tunneling between planar cyclic molecules on their mutual orientation. An expression has been obtained for the dependence on orientation of the tunneling probability in terms of the “cyclic polyene” model. The magnitude of the orientation effect has been estimated for a change in the orientation of the molecules from the face-to-face to the edge-to-edge position.
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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 222–225, March, 1989.
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Demidenko, A.A., Petrov, É.G. Orientation-dependent tunneling of electrons between planar cyclic molecules. Theor Exp Chem 25, 202–205 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01135011
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