Wavepacket splitting and two-pathway deactivation in the photoexcited visual pigment isorhodopsin.
Isorhodopsin is the visual pigment analogue of rhodopsin. It shares the same opsin environment but it embeds 9-cis retinal instead of 11-cis. Its photoisomerization is three times slower and less effective. The mechanistic rationale behind this observation is revealed by combining high-level quantum...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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