Skip to main content

Timeline for Wavefunction of isomers

Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0

6 events
when toggle format what by license comment
Oct 26, 2014 at 20:08 history bounty ended Nick
Oct 23, 2014 at 17:35 vote accept Nick
Oct 23, 2014 at 12:11 comment added Geoff Hutchison Generally, the barriers to interconversion are too high for this to happen at a significant rate. However, this does happen. For example diamond is metastable and eventually converts to graphite.
Oct 23, 2014 at 4:40 comment added Nick "It's clear that different chemical isomers are local minima on a highly multi-dimensional space." This is really interesting. So given enough time, would higher energy isomers spontaneously decay into lower energy isomers? If not, why?
Oct 23, 2014 at 3:17 review First posts
Oct 23, 2014 at 3:25
Oct 23, 2014 at 3:17 history answered Geoff Hutchison CC BY-SA 3.0