The carbonyl-lock mechanism underlying non-aromatic fluorescence in biological matter

Abstract Challenging the basis of our chemical intuition, recent experimental evidence reveals the presence of a new type of intrinsic fluorescence in biomolecules that exists even in the absence of aromatic or electronically conjugated chemical compounds. The origin of this phenomenon has remained...

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Main Authors: Gonzalo Díaz Mirón, Jonathan A. Semelak, Luca Grisanti, Alex Rodriguez, Irene Conti, Martina Stella, Jayaramakrishnan Velusamy, Nicola Seriani, Nadja Došlić, Ivan Rivalta, Marco Garavelli, Dario A. Estrin, Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle, Mariano C. González Lebrero, Ali Hassanali, Uriel N. Morzan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42874-3