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ROTATIONALLY RESOLVED STUDIES OF PARA-AMINOPHENOL AND ITS COMPLEXES..

JUSTIN W. YOUNG, PATRICK S. WALSH, ADAM J. FLEISHER AND DAVID W. PRATT, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pa 15260.

In biological systems, solvent molecules play a significant role through non-covalent interactions. From this, the desire to understand the properties of solvent molecules bound to different functional groups of a bio-molecule follows. The goal of this study is to use rotationally resolved electronic spectroscopy to determine the position of attachment and intermolecular motions of a single solvent molecule linked to three possible receptor sites in para-aminophenol; the hydroxyl group, the amino group, and the aromatic ring.