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| | Principles of the Chiropticene Switch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | This pathway between the chiral forms is on the excited state, light activated, surface of the molecule. |
 | | From this position, the relatively low energy, yet excited form, quickly dissipates excess energy to the surrounding lattice and descends to the higher energy vibrational states that occupy the top of the thermal barrier, reforming in the process the key broken bond on one or the other side of its mirror plane. |
 | | But as a second, major effect, the electrical field induces additional polarization in each molecular form that as a result can be pictured as diverting the transition of the prochiral form, as shown in Figure 6, to the downside of the energy barrier. |
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