Molecules in solution change their conformations so quickly that no method has been able to record the process. This looks set to change, as infrared spectroscopy rises to the challenge.
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Cho, M. Molecular motion pictures. Nature 444, 431–432 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/444431a
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