Photochemical reactivity of polyenes: From dienes to rhodopsin, from microseconds to femtoseconds

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 835-844

  Liu, Robert S H ^a   Hammond, George S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKADIENE; POLYENE; RHODOPSIN; FREE RADICAL;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMERIZATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; CHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

FREE RADICALS; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLYENES; QUANTUM THEORY; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 0345472961     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b304027e     Document Type: Review

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