Determination of excited-state energies and dynamics in the B band of the bacterial reaction center with 2D electronic spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2487-2492

  Schlau Cohen, Gabriela S ^a,b,d   De Re, Eleonora ^a,b   Cogdell, Richard J ^c   Fleming, Graham R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL REACTION; CHEMICAL ENERGY; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSFER PATHWAYS; ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITED-STATE ENERGY; LOCAL MINIMUMS; PHOTOENERGY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; REACTION CENTER; TIME-SCALES; TWO-STATE;

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84865972430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300841u     Document Type: Article

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