Research Article

Properties of Reaction Intermediates from Unzipping Nanotubes via the Diketone Formation: A Computational Study

Figure 11

Representative α-spin orbitals of the 7-diketone-attached nanotube in the frontier orbital region. An energy value in parentheses indicates the energy difference between the α-spin HOMO and a certain orbital.
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(a) HOMO-2 (−0.19 eV)
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(b) HOMO-4 (−0.34 eV)