An artificial molecular switch that mimics the visual pigment and completes its photocycle in picoseconds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17642-17647

  Sinicropi, Adalgisa ^a   Martin, Elena ^c   Ryazantsev, Mikhail ^b   Helbing, Jan ^d   Briand, Julien ^e   Sharma, Divya ^e   Léonard, Jérémie ^e   Haacke, Stefan ^e   Cannizzo, Andrea ^f   Chergui, Majed ^f   Zanirato, Vinicio ^g   Fusi, Stefania ^a   Santoro, Fabrizio ^h   Basosi, Riccardo ^a   Ferré, Nicolas ⁱ   Olivucci, Massimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^h AREA DELLA RICERCA   (Italy)

ⁱ AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

CASPT2 CASSCF; Mid IR; Photochemical switch; Time resolved spectroscopy; UV vis

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; SCHIFF BASE; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; GENE SWITCHING; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLVATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56849105213     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802376105     Document Type: Article

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