Ultrafast excited state dynamics of 5,6-dihydroxyindole, a key eumelanin building block: nonradiative decay mechanism

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 113, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 12575-12580

  Gauden, Magdalena ^a   Pezzella, Alessandro ^b   Panzella, Lucia ^b   Napolitano, Alessandra ^b   D'Ischia, Marco ^b   Sundstro, Villy ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BIOPOLYMERS; DECAY (ORGANIC); EXCITED STATES; POSITIVE IONS;

ABSORPTION BAND; BUILDING BLOCKES; CATION-RADICALS; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; DIHYDROXYINDOLE; EUMELANINS; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; EXCITED-STATE PROPERTIES; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; NONRADIATIVE DECAYS; PHOSPHATE BUFFERS; RADICAL CATIONS; SEMIQUINONE RADICALS; SINGLET EXCITED STATE; SOLVATED ELECTRON; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRIPLET STATE; ULTRA-FAST;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

5,6 DIHYDROXYINDOLE; 5,6-DIHYDROXYINDOLE; EUMELANIN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; MELANIN;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PH; RADIOACTIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ABSORPTION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDOLES; KINETICS; MELANINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 70349126360     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp903190k     Document Type: Article

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