Site-specific isotope labeling demonstrates a large mesomeric resonance effect of the methoxy groups on the carbonyl frequency in ubiquinones

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 247-252

  Boullais, Claude ^a   Nabedryk, Eliane ^a   Burie, Jean René ^a   Nonella, Marco ^b   Mioskowski, Charles ^a   Breton, Jacques ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Infrared; Isotope labeling; Mesomeric resonance; Quinone

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031875591     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005979817422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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