Subject: Re: CCL:Light induced torsional movement

From: "Charles Marais" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 13:51:09

Daniel Kost wrote:

>> Without going into the computational detail, I would just like to comment
>> that a reaction which is "induced by UV light, and the reverse
>> > transformation by heat" - is quite impossible, since it would violate 
>> the principle of microscopic reversibility:  At least in the thermal part,
>> BOTH the forward and the reverse reactions should be "induced" to the 
>> same extent.
>> Daniel Kost
>> [email-masked]

I should perhaps have clearer - We don't know that the forward and 
reverse paths are the same, just that the molecule proceeds from A->B 
when you shine light on it, and from B->A when you heat it.  The 
mechanisms may be quite different.

Charles

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