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The severely non-planar π-system of Cyclooctatetraene exhibits extreme ‘nonvertical’ behaviour in accepting triplet energy from a series of donors, a fact strongly supporting the proposal that ‘nonvertical’ behaviour is a consequence of single-bond torsional modes on the ground-state surface.
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Forward et al. (1993) studied this question.
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